We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.
Interpretation
This quote warns against neglecting our basic human needs and desires, suggesting that when we do, they can manifest in destructive ways.
J. B. Priestley's quote speaks to the importance of recognizing and addressing our fundamental senses and emotions. When these needs are starved or ignored, they can lead to a sense of anger and bitterness, much like an imprisoned animal that desires freedom. The quote serves as a reminder that we must nurture our senses and emotional well-being to prevent negative consequences in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-care, this quote could underscore the importance of emotional well-being.
But some of us are beginning to pull well away, in our irritation, from...the exquisite tasters, the vintage snobs, the three-star Michelin gourmets. There is, we feel, a decent area somewhere between boiled carrots and Beluga caviare, sour plonk and Chateau Lafitte, where we can take care of our gullets and bellies without worshipping them.
A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Much of writing might be described as mental pregnancy with successive difficult deliveries.
There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.
We plan, we toil, we suffer - in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Radio City? The empire of Asia? A trip to the moon? No, no, no, no. Simply to wake just in time to smell coffee and bacon and eggs.
No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation_x000D_ creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his inner_x000D_ world, the writer must live with hope, work in faith
God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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