Quote by Stendhal Download Open image ““An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.”” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
“A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...” — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit it to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being murdered, it… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“A hint of sanity and heaps of insanity lead to success. I’m extremely insane.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.” — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The problem with Insanity was how incredibly sane it felt. He bit his tongue and said nothing to the smirking ghost of his father.” — Matthew Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he’d completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who’d gone insane never wondered if they’d gone insane.” — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
