Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous HuxleyRead
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Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
The thing of courage_x000D_ _x000D_ As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,_x000D_ _x000D_ And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,_x000D_ _x000D_ Retorts to chiding fortune.
A feud should live a full and colorful life, and then it should die a natural death and be forgotten.
Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself.
The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes.
Fair peace is becoming to men; fierce anger belongs to beasts.
People seem to fight about things very unsuitable for fighting. They make a frightful noise in support of very quiet things. They knock each other about in the name of very fragile things.
When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.
To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.
There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.
I'd rather have a daughter in a whorehouse than a son in the police force,' Esther used to rage to anyone who would listen.
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
I won't waste your time with the injuries of my childhood, with my loneliness, or the fear and sadness of the years I spent inside my parents' marriage, under the reign of my father's rage, afer all, who isn't a survivor from the wreck of childhood?
If you trade your authenticity for safety, you may experience the following: anxiety, depression, eating disorders, addiction, rage, blame, resentment, and inexplicable grief.
Abused patience turns to fury.
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
What she had believed was indignation or rage or a deep intolerance for injustice came down to this: she was irreducibly in love with this bewitching planet, this thrilling life, this heartbreaking species she belonged to, with its capacity for stupefying destruction and breathtaking magnanimity.
She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.
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