Ancient Quote by Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

— Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…

— Allen Ginsberg

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for…

— Allen Ginsberg

I perceived that I was on a little round grain of rock and metal, filmed with water and with air, whirling in sunlight and…

— Olaf Stapledon

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

— Roselyne Bosch

The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in…

— Antoni Tapies

Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the…

— Anne Waldman

I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into…

— Banana Yoshimoto

Against my will, I became a witness to the most terrible defeat of reason and to the most savage triumph of brutality ever chroniclednever…

— Stefan Zweig

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

I had grown up at a time when people were being lynched, being attacked with water hoses. Becoming active and learning a different way…

— Assata Shakur

I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains…

— Gary Snyder