Acceleration Quote by Susan Sontag

I am interested in giving the reader true vertigo. I look to deteriorating consciousness as our inevitable condition and I am trying to make…

— Tony Burgess

“We really do see astigmatically, in fundamental sense: our space and time creations of our own psyche and when these momentarily falter - like…

— Philip K. Dick

I ask myself how I could give in to this perpetual vertigo that I in fact provoked and feared. I floated among erratic clouds…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people…

— George Eliot

“The fragility of the veneer of civilization astonished him. Yet we take it for granted because, being born into it, we have no other…

— Thomas DiMauro

“This feeling that--contrary to the consciously philosophic and historical conception which proclaims unceasing and peaceful progress--one is experiencing a last brief, irretrievable intellectual prime…

— Gyorgy Lukács

“I start suddenly and lift my head. Bethke too, I see, is sitting up. Even Tjaden is on the alert. The year-old instinct has…

— Erich Maria Remarque

We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

— Epictetus

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind…

— Erich Fromm

An event in the present evokes past sensations. But science couldn't explain how a foolish heart had the power to overrule common sense.

— Susan Wiggs

I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom…

— Hilton Als

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

— Rajmani Tigunait