Freedom Quote by Alexandre Dumas

“...the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; it needs trouble and difficulty and…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Because we’re suffering from brain fade. We need an occasional catastrophe to break up the incessant bombardment of information.”

— Don DeLillo

“Awkward approximations, dull stammerings which cannot convey my sense of exhilaration as I seem to burst impediments, to exceed bounds of the possible, to…

— Steven Millhauser

“The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts.”

— H.G. Wells

“We spend our entire lives thinking about death. Without that project to divert us, I expect we would all be dreadfully bored. We would…

— Eleanor Catton

“The human psyche was much more flexible than I’d imagined, capable of expanding to contain all sorts of contradictions and seeming impossibilities.”

— Ransom Riggs

“What they might lack in intelligence, they make up for with sheer quantities of high explosive.”

— Simon Morden

“The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks.”

— Erin Bowman

“And that's what I wanted: obliteration. Decimation. Just an instant smear of me right out of all this rising and falling and nothing changing…

— Andre Dubus III

“A man's brain must expand, if it breaks up the universe.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“In having a purpose. I could feel it hardening up my bones and thickening my blood. I felt older and smarter than anyone else…

— Carol Rifka Brunt

“An immense pressure is on me. I cannot move without dislodging the weight of centuries.”

— Virginia Woolf