Quote by d.h. lawrence

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Dismemberment, even posthumous, is obscene.”

— Brian Kimberling

“Words are such terrible carriers of thought. They’re like the dead bodies of thoughts that the other side studies forensically.”

— K. Hippolite

“His writing had become, like a stash of rare and troubling pornography, something that must be kept hidden, an obsession that other people would…

— Kevin Wilson

“Undeniable obsession of words that quickens my spirit.”

— Euginia Herlihy

“Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had suffered this…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Spoken often enough, words become [became] nonsense.”

— Meredith Duran

“Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.”

— Sydney Smith

“Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“If the novel is dead, I'm a necrophiliac.”

— Tiffany Madison

“machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves”

— William Shakespeare

“Beneath the quiet equanimity, the simmering obsessions.”

— Neil Smith