Susan Griffin Quotes

If I deny myself something, I just get resentful, so what's the point?

It's tough at times to not play.

The act of self-denial seems to confer on us the right to be harsh and merciless toward others.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.

Celibacy and suicide are a similar levels of understanding, suicide and a martyr's death not so by any means, perhaps marriage and a martyr's death.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.

If you deprive yourself of something, you're going to want it more.

What I learned from this movie, 40 Days and 40 Nights: Abstinence can be a very good thing. Especially from box offices where this film is playing.

We have to sacrifice before we can prosper.

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

Nobody abuses us more than we abuse ourselves.

Self-denial is often the sacrifice of one sort of self-love for another.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

She examined me, she looked at me critically and said, "Why are you trying to starve yourself?" To keep myself from feeling love, from feeling lust, from feeling anything at all.