Gervais Syndrome Quotes

#1. Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty.

Walter Savage Landor

#2. It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Epictetus

#3. So when war can't be avoided, you fight in such a way as to reveal to the enemy how war is destroying him. When he finally sees it, he stops.

Orson Scott Card

#4. I've been sifting through the layers
of dusty books and faded papers.
They tell a story I used to know;
one that happened so long ago.

Kate Wolf

#5. Deep experience is never peaceful.

Henry James

#6. We want murderous throats
affairs that resemble bright birds
in death spirals.

Krysten Hill

#7. The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

Mark Doty

#8. The cry comes from the friends of the school-room, from those who would give the State a strong, great, noble citizenship, for protection from the curse of drunkenness. This cry should be heard and answered by every lover of his fellow-men, no matter where his home may be.

Thomas Jordan Jarvis