Deviant Quotes

What is in the minds of the majority the society is unmindful of.

~ Amit Abraham

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world. ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as a threat to the very fabric of society. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy and the deviant, the decadents attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art.

~ Asti Hustvedt

Power,' as the sociologist Nachman Ben-Yehuda writes, 'enters the picture in two ways': the first entails constructing and legitimizing the moral system itself; the second, in enforcing it. In this view, 'deviants are those who simply do not have enough power to prevent others from defining them as such'.

~ Shuli Barzilai

Everyone can be corrupted, even the great and the good.

~ Mark Dysan

Stop saying hurt.’ She turned on him; the wounded animal finally breaking free. ‘You fall over on the pavement, that hurts; you stub your toe, that hurts; you trap your finger in a car door, shit, that hurts. You did not hurt me. James. It was like you took a razor and pressed down hard in the tenderest place.

~ Tan Redding

I think now we are simply strangers with some memories.

~ Tan Redding

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

~ Asti Hustvedt