Quote by George Saunders Download Open image ““A fat green crescent hung above the mad scene like a stolid judge, inured to all human folly.”” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Mad are thy subjects all, and even the wisest heart Straight to folly will fall, at a touch of thy poisoned dart.” — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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“Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In a world that thought itself so wise yet behaved so stupidly, it was possible sometimes to believe that only the mad saw matters… — Robert Goddard Copy Share Image
“What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, my shadow pinned… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
“The cruel truth exposes the ugly side of us so deeply that we find solace in the last defence hiding behind the facade of… — BinYamin Gulzar Copy Share Image
“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?” — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a farthing for… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
“It was the judge and the imbecile. They were both of them naked and they neared through the desert dawn like beings of a mode little more than tangential to the world at large, their figures now quick with clarity and now fugitive in the strangeness of that same light. Like things whose very portent renders them ambiguous. Like things… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share
“For brick and mortar breed filth and crime, With a pulse of evil that throbs and beats; And men are whithered before their prime By the curse paved in with the lanes and streets. And lungs are poisoned and shoulders bowed, In the smothering reek of mill and mine; And death stalks in on the struggling crowd— But he shuns… — George W. Sears Nessmuk Copy Share
“Sapping the foundations of civilisation, of authority, of other people’s altars, spattering them with filth, winking jocosely at them only to justify and conceal… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image