How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Frank HerbertTags: anger repression dissonance
Dissonance is as fatal in ailments of the mind as it is in those of the body.
Georges RodenbachTags: dissonance
Lisa was thinking, as she climbed the apparently unending staircase, the she had taken pretty long odds. She had not hesitated to buck the Tiger, Life. Simon Iff had warned her that she was acting on impulse. But--on the top of that--he had merely urged her to be true to it. She swore once more that she would stick to her guns. The black mood fell from her. She turned and looked upon the sea, now far below. The sun, a hollow orb of molten glory, hung quivering in the mist of the Mediterranean; and Lisa entered for a moment into a perfect peace of spirit. She became once with Nature, instead of a being eternally at war with it.
Aleister CrowleyTags: nature imagery contrast dissonance
Rather than adjust his expectations in the face of disappointment, he (Jefferson) tended to bury them deeper inside himself and regard the disjunction between his ideals and the worldly imperfections as the world's problems rather than his own.
Joseph J. EllisTags: idealism dissonance
When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail--it's disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It's astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It's almost like those things didn't happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don't really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can't even remember her name.
Chuck KlostermanTags: nostalgia living regret remembering dissonance
So close to the powers of evil she must have lived that she still breathed more freely in their air.
Edith WhartonTags: change anxiety sanctification dissonance
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it's lonely, because you feel you can't talk about it. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.
David LevithanTags: loneliness imperfection transgender disability dissonance struggling dysmorphia fighting-yourself
The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.
Ellen CushingTags: wealth economics class poverty americans income dissonance middle-class
Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without difficulty.
T.H. WhiteTags: self-delusion obedience dissonance discipleship
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