"Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose……" — Angela Carter
"Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason."
—
Angela Carter
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
129 Quotes by Angela Carter
Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
-
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
-
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
-
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
-
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
-
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
-
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
-
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
-
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
-
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
-
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
-
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
See all 129 quotes by Angela Carter »
More Destroyed Quotes
This quote is filed under Destroyed Quotes,
one of 1,168 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
— Isaac Asimov
-
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always…
— Roger Babson
-
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
-
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed…
— Ben Bernanke
-
The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.
— Theodor Adorno
-
Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are…
— William Blake
-
I think people had somehow gotten the sense that we have explored everything, when that isn't the case. We so…
— James Cameron
-
What is the system? It revolves around the banks, the system is built on the power of the banks, so…
— Eric Cantona
-
My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next…
— Al Capp
-
I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the…
— Benjamin Carson
-
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
— Hugo Chavez
-
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the…
— Lord Chesterfield
See all 1,168 Destroyed Quotes »