Defences Quotes

“The purpose of the false self is to defend against pain - not deal with reality”
― Robert W. Firestone

“Pain is not the most important tool in Dominance and submission, yet it is a most worthy tool. Pain breaks down barriers and defences. And for intensifying the orgasm? There are few superior devices a Dom has to achieve such, other than varying degrees of pain.”
― Nikki Sex, Karma

“Why spend your life working on defense when no defense can be made truly impenetrable? Take the offensive – learn the vulnerabilities of the world around you and be the change you wish to see rather than living in constant fear of what may happen to you instead.”
― A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar

“Yet though there is no visible barrier I know only too well that I am surrounded by unseen and impassable walls which tower into the highest domes of the zenith and sink many miles below the surface of the earth.”
― Anna Kavan, Asylum Piece

“Vulnerability and honesty go together. I have little time for people who don’t have the capacity for either. You never get anywhere with them.”
― Donna Goddard, Nanima: Spiritual Fiction