Top 38 Convulsion Quotes
#1. Sanity is found at the centre of convulsion, where madness is scorched
from the bisected soul.
Sarah Kane
#2. The result is a twitching convulsion of vicious drivel passing itself off as a movie, which can be best appreciated by the kind of people who dig Showgirls, the Saw franchise and Spike Jonze-Charlie Kaufman flicks.
Rex Reed
#3. If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of humanity.
Georges Bataille
#4. We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.
Everett Dirksen
#5. The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
Alexander Pope
#8. The question whether the long effort to put an end to war can succeed without another major convulsion challenges not only our minds but our sense of responsibility.
Emily Greene Balch
#9. Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
Abraham Lincoln
#10. Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#11. For the creation of the mechanicals was a seismic event, an earth-rending convulsion that left nothing untouched: palaces, thrones, and empires, yes, but also the way men and women thought about themselves and their relationship to the world, to God, even their own bodies.
Ian Tregillis
#12. [A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the awful responsibility of Time.
Robert Penn Warren
#13. Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance.
Alain De Botton
#14. A national crisis, a political convulsion, is an opportunity, a gift to the traveler. Nothing is more revealing of a place to a stranger than trouble. Even if a crisis is incomprehensible, as it usually is, it lends drama to the day and transforms the traveler into an eye witness.
Paul Theroux
#15. 61I am prepared to ... assert that inspiration has something in common with a convulsion, and that every sublime thought is accompanied by a more or less violent nervous shock which has its repercussions in the very core of the brain.
Walter Benjamin
#16. Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.
Naguib Mahfouz
#17. In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.
Andrew Coyle Bradley
#18. College is always a time of change, I guess, the last major convulsion of childhood,
Stephen King
#19. Laughter
an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.
Ambrose Bierce
#20. All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.
Charles Francis Adams, Sr.
#21. One can suffer a convulsion of one's entire nature, and, unless it makes some noise, no one notices. It's not just that we are incurious; we completely lack any sense of each other's existences.
Elizabeth Bowen
#22. People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
#24. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.
Abraham Lincoln
#25. It's true I live on hope. Why shouldn't I? Every day I see her beauty while you rot in hell. You will tell me that I'm deluded but we are all deluded in some way. The question is which is the best delusion.
Danny Scheinmann
#26. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.
Louisa May Alcott
#27. This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases.
George W. Bush
#28. Joy, love, freedom, happiness, laughter. That's what it is. And if you just experience joy sitting there and meditating for an hour, by golly, do that. If
Anonymous
#30. That's it. Gently now," Reagan said to Nellie. "We'll move onto the hard stuff tomorrow."
"This ... isn't ... the hard stuff?" Nellie spit out through gritted teeth.
Reagan grinned. "You really hate me right now, don't you?"
"Immeasurably."
"Good. Give me ten.
Jude Watson
#31. A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information
Robert Aumann
#32. Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
Dean Koontz
#33. What supporters say about their leader
tells men a third about who he is.
What supporters do for their leader
tells men two thirds about who he is.
What supporters give up for their leader
tells men all of who he is.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#34. If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
Malcolm Gladwell
#35. Living exists when life lives through us ... life is a living now!
Bruce Lee
#36. The temptation battle is the most important battle you will ever fight.
John Ortberg
#37. These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
Frederick Leboyer
