No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle
Tag: quotes
I believe the common denominator of the Universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility and murder.
Werner Herzog
The worst part about anything that’s self destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.
L.L.
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.
Albert Einstein
There is no final, satisfying way to balance our need to be known with our need to be alone. The balance is always uncertain and provisional; it’s always a matter of dissatisfaction, give-and-take, and sacrifice…It’s up to each of us to balance the risks and rewards—to trade, in right proportion, loneliness for freedom, explicability for mystery, and the knowable for the unknown within ourselves.
Joshua Rothman, from Virginia Woolf’s Idea Of Privacy
Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it.
John Eldredge
If she doesn’t scare the hell out of you a little, she’s not the one.
It is incredible how essential to me you have become.
Vita Sackville-West, from a letter to Virginia Woolf
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