Agitation Quote by Michel de Montaigne

“fountains of inconvenient feeling—and toward the frantic enticements of”

— Cheryl Strayed

Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a…

— David Hume

“Beings become enraged and elated Through the causes for quarrels and celebrations. [154cd] They grieve and toil, they despair, And they mutilate and slay…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Here was a tranquil, sunshiny day of a life that was to be agitated and stormy—a happy hour or two to remember. Not much…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with…

— Lydia Sigourney

All of us have had the experience of a sudden joy that came when nothing in the world had forewarned us of its coming…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Great happiness, and mingled therefor with bitter sorrow. It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe.

— Georg Ebers

“Yes, this sudden transmutation in the order of things seems to enhance our pleasure, as if consecrating the unchanging nature of a ritual established…

— Muriel Barbery

“When we free ourselves from the chaos enclosed in the surrounding rigid social structure, we can find peace of mind and still our hunger…

— Erik Pevernagie

The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia,…

— Robert Morrison MacIver

“The exquisite sorrows with which they had been afflicted, made them think lightly of every succeeding woe. They had felt the sharpest darts in…

— Matthew Lewis

“these are my enticements, and they are sufficent to conquer all fear and danger or death... with the induction of the joy of a…

— Mary Shelley