Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.

Charles Caleb Colton

War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.

Charles Dickens

Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?

Charles Dickens

I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.

Charles Stross

There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?

Charles Stross

I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.

Chogyam Trungpa

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

David Brin

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Anais Nin

Everything but happiness is neurosis.

Alfred Adler

The neurotic is nailed to the cross of his fiction.

Fran Drescher

our greatest compatibility was in how we complemented each other's neuroses.

Hubert H. Humphrey

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

Martin Amis

Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.

Jim Shaw

I feel like schizoid is a precursor to schizophrenia or manic depression. I feel like I'm manic. I have parts of schizoid, parts of Asperger's. I'm a smorgasbord of neuroses.

Lionel Trilling

Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process.

Kurt Vonnegut

Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

George McGovern

I didn't know a damned thing about mental illness and neither did anyone around me.

Linda Hamilton

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

Lady Gaga

I take medication every day for mental illness and depression and don't feel bad about it.

Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Karl Kraus

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

Marshall McLuhan

Any breakdown is a breakthrough.

Mark Vonnegut

As well as being one of the worst things that can happen to a human being, schizophrenia can also be one of the richest learning and humanizing experiences life offers.

Robert Smithson

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.