Mehrasa

“The alcoholic, to get liquor, will do everything that the drug-addict will do to get drugs, everything but one: and that is murder. Cut off from drink, he’ll lie to get it, beg, plead, wheedle, borrow, steal, rob—all the crimes in the catalogue. But he won’t kill for it. That’s the difference between the drunk and the drug-addict. But the only one.”
― Charles Jackson, The Lost Weekend

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

“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

“Remember it. Remember that I must want it badly. Remember that this is the only thing left to want, in this world wide and deep.”
― Alejandra Pizarnik, The Galloping Hour: French Poems