History Quote by Arthur Rimbaud

“It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man’s deep and hidden character; they bear no relation to what he has previously…

— Marcel Proust

“I now argue that entry into Upper Palaeolithic caves was probably seen as virtually indistinguishable from entry into the mental vortex that leads to…

— James David Lewis-Williams

“When I think now of all the lunatics I knew at Baryton's, I can't help suspecting that the only two manifestations of our innermost…

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Slowly I became possessed by the absurd conviction that everything was possible, and it seemed to me that even those deserted streets and that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind

“Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due…

— Flann O'Brien

“In fact he was incurably insane and hallucinated more or less continuously, but by a remarkable stroke of lateral thinking his fellow wizards had…

— Terry Pratchett

“10. WINDLESTRAWS. KEΦAΔH I WINDLESTRAWS The Abyss of Hallucinations has Law and Reason; but in Truth there is no bond between the Toys of…

— Aleister Crowley

“I hurried away to the white hall of Phantasy heedless of the innumerable forms of beauty that crowded my way: these might cross my…

— George MacDonald

“They are given to all kinds of marvellous beliefs; are subject to trances and visions; and frequently see strange sights, and hear music and…

— Washington Irving

“Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we…

— Richard Mitchell

“A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“Even in her trances, even while possessed, my sister was very shrewd about her prospects. A fantasy would collapse like a wave against the…

— Karen Russell