Barbarity Quote by Bela Bartok

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“His addiction to millenarianism, his confidence in visions, his prophetic stridency, his hatred of art, and his mistrust of secular scholarship align him with…

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and ugliness; accepts…

— Hermann Hesse

“would sometimes say, that if life were made what it might be, by good government and good education, it would be worth having: but…

— Christopher Hitchens

“his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out of self-consciousness into passionate delight; it went on fluttering in…

— George Eliot

“His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the…

— Eleanor Catton

“The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.”

— Francis Stuart Campbell

“Zahhak reigned for a thousand years, and from end to end the world was his to command. The wise concealed themselves and their deeds,…

— Anonymous

He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end- death. These…

— Ivan Turgenev

“He sank more and more into apathy; little interested him apart from dolls and other children’s toys. He still spoke occasionally, but mainly to…

— Julian Young

“Faust has spent his youth and manhood, not as others do, in the sunny crowded paths of profit, or among the rosy bowers of…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Let us imagine a coming generation with such intrepidity of vision, with such a heroic penchant for the tremendous; let us imagine the bold…

— Friedrich Nietzsche