Because to love is to bent

To love is to bent

"Hesitation, anxiety, the struggle between belief and disbelief — all that is sometimes such a torment for a conscientious man, that it's better to hang oneself."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

"Obviously, there is a place in life for a religious attitude in the sense of awe, of astonishment at existence. And this is also a basis of respect for existence — which is something we do not have very much of in this culture, even thought we call it materialistic. A materialist is a person who loves material, but in our culture today we are bent on the total destruction of material and its conversation into junk and poisonous gas as quickly as possible. Ours is not a materialistic culture because it has no respect for material. And respect is, in turn, based on wonder — on feeling the marvel of just an ordinary peeble in your fingers."

— Allan Watts, Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks 1960-1980

"Human beings are more inclined to love the things that hurt them the most not because we are masochists by birth, but because we are taught from a young age that true love is going to, is supposed to, hurt you in ways you cannot fathom."

— Lorida Ament, Masochism is a Learned Trait

"He who learns must suffer and even in our sleep pain that cannot forget. Falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

— Aeschylus (Greek 525 to 456 B.C.)