Slight Insanity Thoreau Walden Quotes

#1. Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.

Nguyen Du

#2. If you see the Sopranos, you're not going to be speaking in the Shakespearean English.

Lucy Liu

#3. To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.

Henry David Thoreau

#4. You ask me if I love you and what you really mean is will I devour you, envelope you, obliterate life for you and worse, will I allow you to do that to me. That's why I never answer you, because I do love you, but not in the way you want, and I never will.

Rona Jaffe

#5. Our children forever changed our relationships with our mothers. Pity replaced the mild contempt with which we had previously regarded them, and we loved them as we never had before, as we could only love ourselves, because despite our best intentions we had become them.

Anthony Marra

#6. He is a squat, balding, flabby man, but still a man. He does not judge me.

Margaret Atwood

#7. Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

Alexander Hume

#8. It's what I learn from the great actors that I work with. Stillness. That's all and that's the hardest thing.

Morgan Freeman