"Anger, the Stoics said, was a short madness."

-- Philip Sidney

#Madness Quotes #Said Quotes

“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.”
“Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.”
“Weekend planning is a prime time to apply the Deathbed Priority Test: On your deathbed, will you wish you'd spent more prime weekend hours grocery shopping or walking in the woods with your kids?”
“You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.”
“If there's something I can do and I feel it should be done, I just want to do it. I just don't want to leave it undone because I'll sit back and say, why didn't I do that? Why didn't I start that business?”
“Hope is not just... out in the sky, or not accepting the facts or reality. Hope is having optimistic, positive expectations.”

Source : Source: www.menshealth.com
“Elizabethâ€™s hands flew to her mouth; tears filled her eyes with happiness as she realized he was fulfilling yet another of her and her motherâ€™s intended activities. â€œWhy are you fulfilling all of my motherâ€™s dreams?â€ she asked, studying his face and searching for answers. â€œSo you donâ€™t run away like she did in search of them,â€ he replied, taking her hand. â€œCome on, join in!â€ he said, leaping around.”
“You know what they say the modern version of Pascal's Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God.”

Source : Greg Egan (2009). “Crystal Nights and Other Stories”, Subterranean

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