Mehrasa

“If he wanted to drink himself to death it was nobody’s affair but his own; his life was his life to throw away, if that’s what he wanted; but—was that what he wanted? If so, why did he suffer remorse? Obviously there was the will in him to destroy himself; part of him was bent on self-destruction—he’d be the last to deny it. But obviously, too, part was not; part held back and expressed its disapproval in remorse and shame.”
― Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend

“Control! Control, Mac,” he said. “There’s plenty of time.” He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. “All afternoon,” he added. “Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.”
― Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend

“A man had to have something, he reasoned, to lose his mind in, at least once a day.”
― Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October

“Masochism is the art of turning punishments into rewards.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana