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People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them.
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
Compulsion: one of those solid respectable psychological-sounding words to nicely wrap the truth: she was as mad as a hatter, as crazy as a bedbug. Oh,
Urges like the loony who enjoys strangling, it's his buzz. He gets depressed when in seclusion, as he can't strangle anybody so in the end he hangs himself in turmoil. Their brain can't handle it. He wants so bad to kill, but they will not let him, so he has to kill himself.
Perhaps that was his way of punishing himself. Masochism. People torture themselves more terribly than anyone else could.
To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.
Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do.
COMPULSION, n. The eloquence of power.
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness ... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them ... but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
unconscious self-love
Excessive interest in pathological behavior was itself pathological
Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.
Life is an addiction and self-preservation is its sweetest high
It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.
Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
One who hopes inordinately, impairs his deeds.
Why does anyone do the things they do?
Sentimentality is the supestructure erected upon brutality.
I'm a compulsive everything.
People with victim mentality, consider actions such as making decisions, setting goals and achieving them to be nothing more than formidable obstacles
People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.
Revenge is a powerful motivation, especially for someone with nothing to lose.
a cocktail of characteristics that I found addictive,
Futilitarianism.
A person with a victim complex is unable to set goals and achieve them independently
The word is a violent pleasure.
Like so many other kids gone wrong from my time, place, and class, I thought it glamorous to be self-destructive. Unfortunately, I had also always known that this was a stupid and callow way to think.
Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.
Compulsion is attraction without reason.
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.
You're angry."
"Wow. You really are good."
"And guarded. You've been hurt, but you still crave connection. Understanding. So you throw yourself into risk in a calculated way. You're a paradox: a careful daredevil.
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
psychological reactance.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
People who've been hurt like hurting others [..]
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to cure a mental patient the only option left to revive him now is to give him a shock treatment through an electric current.
To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.
It's a fitting punishment for a monster. to want something so much - to hold it in your arms - and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it.
Some sort of psychopath, like a serial killer.
Insecure or homicidal: the adjectives don't bother me one bit.
In general, the man who is readily disposed to sacrifice himself is one who does not know how else to give meaning to his life. The profession of enthusiasm is the most sickening of all insincerities.
Jealousy - the Auschwitz of emotions.
The nice word for you is methodical. Obsessive-compulsive is the meaner phrase, and one you've truly earned.
How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.
Schadenfreude,' Colin said. Finding pleasure in others' pain.
A form of self-delusion.
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Some people can't rest until a wrong is righted or a hardship relieved.
a chronic malcontent, albeit quite a purposeless one.
Why does anyone commit murder?' he asked in a low voice.
'I-'I blinked.'How should I know?'
'Three reasons,' Christopher said. He held up one finger. 'Love.' Another finger. 'Revenge.' And finally, a third finger. 'Profit ...
Inconstancy is the child of satiety.
A person who doesn't know exactly what he wants out of life, jumps at everything that appears silver in his way and hold tight onto them to the point degradation.
There is a haphazard sort of doing good, which is nothing but temperamental pleasure-seeking.
The fear of loss, in one form or another, is the motivator behind all conscious and unconscious dishonesties.
Thrifty, to think not only of eating the people you did not like, but eating them out of their own skull. The
covetousness. But,
People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.
But both the narcissist and his partner do not really consider each other. Trapped in the moves of an all-consuming dance macabre, they follow the motions morbidly - semiconscious, desensitized, exhausted, and concerned only with survival.
A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
A person with victim mentality cannot find himself, his life mission, and go towards his aims
Your inner want-monkey," he repeated. "The part of yourself that secretly wants to throw shit if you don't get what you want. You know, the kid who kicks and screams if you ask for sprinkles on your ice cream and your parents don't get you any." - Alexander 'Lex' Steel
2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.
nihilistic - but
the lust for glory is a selfish endevour.
I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
Nymphomaniac: a woamn that has more sex than you.
The urge to fight, to maul, to murder: it is the greatest cancer that afflicts mankind. It obliterates the body of the victim, and the spirit of the the one who strikes the blow. I have seen it...
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
A person whom lacks self-discipline leaks energy chasing naked ambitions.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
Guilt, the poor man's mind control.
Cynicism-the pus from a wound.
Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it.
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.
Victim fall in love with excuses
When any individual or collection of individuals acts in disobedience to the moral order, short-term gratification may be experienced; but such behavior produces an inevitable deterioration of the personality and leads to a long term loss of what is truly worthy.
Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.
A contemptible person, but ready to face suffering!
But I wouldn't call myself sadistic.
Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars
Perversity is the human thirst for self-torture.
All that is called sadistic is not so. It is called sadistic in comparison to what is regarded as normal which has yet not been defined correctly.
I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.
The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress.
It is human nature to seek revenge in the face of relentless suffering. You can't expect an unhealthy person to think logically.
When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
Fanatic is often the name given to people of action by people who are lazy.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
When you associate pleasure and pain, at the same time, to a certain purpose in your mind, you sabotage yourself; you'll be two steps forward and one back.
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.