Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.
Interpretation
Pride can lead to one's downfall, consuming one's emotional and mental state.
This quote suggests that pride, when unchecked or taken to extremes, can cause significant harm to a personβs well-being. It implies that pride can distort judgment and lead to destructive behaviors, ultimately harming not just the individual but also their relationships and inner peace.
In practice
During a workshop on self-awareness, you can quote this to illustrate the dangers of excessive pride.
From my stone pillow I have dreamed dreams of the mortal world above. I have heard its voices, its new music, as lullabies as I lie in my grave. I have envisioned its fantastical discoveries. I have known its courage in the timeless sanctum of my thoughts. And though it shuts me out with its dazzling forms, I long for one with the strength to roam it fearlessly, to ride the Devil's Road through its heart.
We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.
And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.
Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lostβa heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.
To theology, ... only what it holds sacred is true, whereas to philosophy, only what holds true is sacred.
Visit your soul; don't visit your past.
I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.
The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
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