Babel Quote by Jonathan Swift

“The perturbations, anxieties, depravations, deaths, exceptions in the physical or moral order, spirit of negation, brutishness, hallucinations fostered by the will, torments, destruction, confusion,…

— Lautréamont

Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of…

— Germaine Greer

“There arose a wild, impetuous, precipitate, mad inexorable, furious, dark, lacerating, merciless, combative, contentious badb, which was shrieking and fluttering over their heads. And…

— Katharine Mary Briggs

Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity...

— John Keats

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Vulgar of manner, overfed, Overdressed and underbred; Heartless, Godless, hell's delight, Rude by day and lewd by night… Crazed with avarice, lust and rum,…

— Byron Rufus Newton

“A knave; a rascal; an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking knave, a…

— William Shakespeare

“It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than…

— Kory Stamper

There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint…

— William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“He thus didn’t find himself outside the limits of his experience; he was high above it. His distaste for himself remained down below; down…

— Milan Kundera

“nothing proving or sick or partial. Nothing false,nothing difficult or easy or small or colossal. Nothing ordinary or extraordinary,nothing emptied or filled,real or unreal;nothing…

— E. E. Cummings

“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