Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (...)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, how mean his facilities, how ugly in form and movement, in action how like a devil, in apprehension how like a cow. The beauty of the world? The paragon of animals? To me the quintessence of dust.
— Paul HoffmanThe world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.
— Tim FargoIt is not for nothing that an ominous feeling often attaches itself to a procession. In films and stories we see spectacles forming in the street and parades coming from around the corner, and we know to greet then with distrust and apprehension: their intent is still to be revealed.
— Eudora WeltyThe anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire.
— Craig D. LounsbroughComfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs, vibrating like a guiter string as perspiration covered her entire body, she felt like disappearing into the thin air, maybe to another mind creating world.
— Michael Bassey JohnsonWhat in the world would ever lead to me believe that life is a series of opportunities that are readily available to everyone else but me? What really leads me to believe such an atrocious lie is that I don’t believe in myself sufficiently to engage those opportunities in the first place.
— Craig D. LounsbroughIt is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
— Mokokoma MokhonoanaIf you don't doubt it, be 'bout it. Intuition is soul's watchman.
— T.F. HodgeWhat we understand and love understands and loves us also.
— Robert WalserTo look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough