Capricious Quote by John Cheever Download Open image “I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind.” — John Cheever ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capricious Mind Psychology
Let man only approach his own self with a deep respect, even reverence for all that the creative soul, the God-mystery within us, puts… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I feel like there is always something trying to pull us back into sleep, that there is this sort of seductive quality in all… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
Filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder. When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Sexual arousal and penal erections are associated with both altered states of consciousness and sleep.” — James David Lewis-Williams Copy Share Image
Sleep conceals the creative act while the objective world reveals it. In sleep man impresses the subconscious with his conception of himself. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
I just love the delusional, hallucinatory qualities of sleep deprivation. I can't get enough of it. — Andrew W.K Copy Share Image
To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Although she was giddy with exhaustion, sleep was a lover who refused to be touched.... — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two.... It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Not to be offensive, not to be capricious, not to be arbitrary, not to be neurotic, not to be an actor outer, you're just… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Any test that turns on what is offensive to the community's standards is too loose, too capricious, too destructive of freedom of expression to… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Like many air travelers, I am aware that airplanes fly aided by capricious fairies and invisible strings. — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms. — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many people, God is a frightening idea. Asking God for help doesn't seem very comforting if we think of Him as something outside… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
