Victory And Mental Illness Quotes

#1. The word "dreadful," even when used three times in a row, did not seem like a dreadful enough word to describe everything that had happened.

Lemony Snicket

#2. Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.

W. Somerset Maugham

#3. As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

Kathryn Schulz

#4. The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.

Lenny Bruce

#5. I don't necessarily make much art myself, but after I wrote 'Warped Passages,' I was fortunate to get involved a little in the art world. I got invited to write a libretto for what we called a projective opera, and I also got invited to curate an art exhibit.

Lisa Randall

#6. Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back? We must keep looking.

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#7. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

Elif Shafak

#8. You aren't a murderer, Alina."

"I think the Ravkans I just helped you slaughter would disagree.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. Couples in their 30s are having trouble having kids. And you just kind of extrapolate that and say, 'What if it happened to everybody? What kind of society would it be like if all of a sudden we knew that this was the end of the line - we couldn't have kids?'

David Alpay

#10. They sell that shit to schoolkids. It's worse than that. How's that? Schoolkids buy it.

Cormac McCarthy