Dipsomania Quotes

#1. Pessimism is a form of mental dipsomania; it disdains healthy nourishment, indulges in the strong drink of denunciation, and creates an artificial dejection which thirsts for a stronger draught.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. I have not had a moment's peace or happiness in respect to electromagnetic theory since November 28, 1846. All this time I have been liable to fits of ether dipsomania, kept away at intervals only by rigorous abstention from thought on the subject.

Lord Kelvin

#3. Knowledge is an attitude, a passion, actually an illicit attitude. For the compulsion to know is like dipsomania, erotomania, and homicidal mania, in producing a character that is out of balance. It is not at all that the scientist goes after the truth.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. My definition of God: God is not only the alpha, the omega, he is friend, he's a confidant, he is a buddy. He is a lover of my soul. That's my definition of God.

DeVon Franklin

#5. The meanest life is better than the most glorious death.

Euripides

#6. May we not then sometimes define insanity as an inability to distinguish which is the waking and which the sleeping life? We often dream without the least suspicion of unreality: 'Sleep hath its own world', and it is often as lifelike as the other.

Lewis Carroll

#7. I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

Elie Wiesel

#8. In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [ ... ].

Tina Fey

#9. Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Thomas Merton

#10. I may be what my enemies desire me to be, yet never an accusation are they able to hurl against me which makes me blush or lower my forehead; and I hope that God will be merciful enough with me, to prevent me from committing one of those faults which would involve my family.

Jose Rizal

#11. Holy shit, I think I brought home some cannibal savant or something. Rain Man with a taste for people. Great?

Jake Bible

#12. Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpful or not helpful.

Irvin D. Yalom

#13. Wives are people who think it's against the law not to answer the phone when it rings.

Rita Rudner

#14. Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.

Isaac Asimov

#15. You always want to read something that everybody says has gone too far, don't you? That's supposed to not just be charting our decline, but embodying it?

Stephen Graham Jones

#16. Right on time, sugar." Josh draped his arm around her shoulders and steered her through the lobby. "Traffic okay?"
"Yeah, except when that alien spaceship landed on I-90 and then all those crickets jumped out to perform Beethoven's Fifth on kazoos. Otherwise, clear sailing.

Jamie Farrell

#17. From infancy onward, children are the most fantastic learners in the world.

Daniel Quinn

#18. They say, once you have a child, your heart is forever outside your body. I totally understand that now.

Kristi Yamaguchi