"There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness."

-- Ishmael

#Woe Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Einstein was wrong! I"M the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!”
“I would not be convicted by a jury of my peers, still crazy after all these years.”
“They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.”
“But it was this tough little character part that I was playing, a very funny little guy that I invented over a weekend, because I realized I was not contributing to the humor of this thing. And I had to do something.”
“... the yearly expenses of the existing religious systemexceed in these United States twenty millions of dollars. Twenty millions! For teaching what? Things unseen and causes unknown!... Twenty millions would more than suffice to make us wise; and alas! do they not more than suffice to make us foolish?”
“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If it all happens naturalistically, what's the need for a God?Â Can't I set my own rules?Â Who owns me?Â I own myself.”
“We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

Source : Wystan Hugh Auden (2011). “The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue”, p.105, Princeton University Press

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