Zackie

“My mother groaned, my father wept,
into the dangerous world I leapt.”
― William Blake

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Pain was a fascinating horror”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

“It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.”
― A.W. Tozer