Life Quote by George Alec Effinger

“It is in that visionary Madness of the Mind that permits a Madman to perceive Truth in extremis, when all else had seemed lost.…

— Anonymous

“Even after all these years, the thought of Isagol the Terrible stirred such a storm in him- of rancor and longing, desire and disgust,…

— Laini Taylor

“Here, what do you know of madness and despair?' 'There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp,…

— Joseph Conrad

“Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but…

— GK Chesterton

“Everyone had an ulterior motive in his worldview. Everyone was self-serving and therefore a potential instrument of pain. The world was a lonely, awful,…

— Jeremy Dyson

“He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in…

— Anonymous

“He was shy, timid, gentle, and kind, but he wrote gruesome and painful books. He saw the world as full of invisible demons, who…

— Milena Jesenska

“One could not stand and watch very long without being philosophical, without beginning to deal in symbols and similes, and to hear the hog-squeal…

— Upton Sinclair

“Yet I wondered fancifully if he had seen more clearly than they did, had sensed the threat which my presence implied – the approaching…

— wilfred thesiger

“Al-e-Ahmad’s invocation of existentialist and absurdist themes in the context of Tehran’s slums underlined a shared predicament. Following Hedayat, he spoke of a universal…

— Pankaj Mishra

“Now a new era had dawned upon the world, which quivered with the impact of tremendous forces, of discoveries and inventions. Man rode upon…

— Robert Nathan

“The poet who sees himself as a hero or a prophet, or a priest of the socio-political forces to which he is loyal, which…

— Michael D. O'Brien