He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.
– Nathanael West
Related Quotes:
- I’m no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I’m no animal. Don’t gimme that. I’m no animal. – JD Salinger
- It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal. – Lawrence Okafor
- Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily. – Nathanael West
- It’s solitary drinking that makes drunkards. – Nathanael West
- Read. Read. Read. Just don’t read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style. – RL Stine
- I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman
- The red sands of Marrakesh, sprawling at the foot of the Atlas like a wounded Leviathan…. – Rosita Forbes
- If you have one foot in the past and one foot in the future, you’re pissing on the present. – Malachy McCourt
- You can never hurt anyone without hurting yourself. Never hurt an innocent, loving, and kind animal. – Debasish Mridha
- How much pain a person detains may be proportionate to the pain they spare others when they’d rather hurt than hurt another. – Donna Lynn Hope
- Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. – Billy Graham
- Silent tears are the worst. It’s the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions… just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears. – NR Walker
- Before hurting an animal, feel her pain and see her tears. Then question your conscience. – Debasish Mridha
- Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power. – Michael Foot
- I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out. – Kristin Hannah
- A wounded animal yet bears teeth – BillieJo Williams
- Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.The wind moves like a wounded animal.The ground must be full of teeth by now. – Cecilia Llompart
- Don’t needlessly draw attention to yourself. If you’re twerking on the beach, a circling pteracuda could mistake you for a wounded animal. – Andrew Shaffer
- Pain, Rhuan decided, did not simply hurt. Pain also exhausted a person, sapped his soul, thinned his spirit. Worse, pain was tedious. – Jennifer Roberson
- And read-¦ read all the time-¦ read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life. – David McCullough Jr
- …for a man is a Herdentier – an animal that always follows the herd, a gregarious animal – and quickly follow’s its neighbour example. – Mikls Bnffy
- Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. – Gore Vidal
- Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house. – Gore Vidal
- The principal aim of a vision quest is to -˜see’ a spirit animal that will become the quester’s animal-helper and source of his power. – James David LewisWilliams
- If you can cull an animal, or kill a human , and sleep well, does not mean you are any more well than a sick animal. – Fakeer Ishavardas
- A man who learns complicated things from animals is a clever man, but an animal who learns complicated things from men is a genius animal! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human. – Carrie Latet
- When an animal comes between the lion and its prey, the animal first becomes the prey before the main prey. – Uzoma Nnadi
- At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn’t all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins. – Mark Lawrence
- An old man’s advice is not an opinion – Nathanael Kanyinga
- Do you want to work like a slave and live like a king or do you want to work like a king and live like a slave? Your choice – Nathanael Kanyinga
- When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. – David W Earle
- Problem is, though, sooner or later, physical pain, it’s… it’s manageable. See, real pain is emotional pain. That is the kind of pain that lasts. – Theo Raeken
- Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy. – Terry Pratchett
- If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain -” in time you will move through your pain. – Bryant McGill
- Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt. – Harley King
- It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. – Rick Warren
- Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment. – Rick Warren
- Love will hurt. If it doesn’t hurt you are not doing it right. To truly love someone you must open yourself up to the pain that would be losing them. – Teresa Mummert