Literature And Illness Quotes

#1. Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

Heinrich Heine

#2. The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.

Arthur Rimbaud

#3. A skill required to be president is to explain to the American people any given thing they do.

Jim Lehrer

#4. What ... you're a hedgehog!" It stirred at her touch and then curled up tighter. "You're a very small hedgehog. And you shouldn't be wandering round enchanted palaces looking for adventures.

Robin McKinley

#5. Today he'd intentionally wandered too far. Wandered away from those who hovered around him like flies to a carcass.

Renee Ahdieh

#6. Humility has the toughest hide.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Even in fiction, I feel rigorous honesty applies. It doesn't apply to facts; it applies to what I think of as not telling emotional lies, which is a funny business.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. The machine has several virtues ... One may lean back in his chair and work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around.

Mark Twain

#9. Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. Ask the first man you meet what he means by defending freedom, and he'll tell you privately he means defending the standard of living.

Martin Niemoller

#11. I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#12. My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.

Russell Banks

#13. If we are constantly striving to improve and innovate, then where will the old fit in this new order?

Daniel Armiss

#14. When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

Robert Aickman

#15. I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

Walter Jon Williams

#16. It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamourous one in the fury of dissappointed love (see: Great Literature).

Julian Barnes

#17. Starving artist: starving for affection, starving for attention

Jessica-Lynn Barbour