Eli > Eli's Quotes

“Grandma Lion
Long fingers and long
Legs stretch out
For a drink in the goldenrod”
― Michael Dickman, Pacific Power & Light: Poems

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

“A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
― Guy de Maupassant, Le Horla et autres contes fantastiques

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”
― Tim Burton

“Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Do you think it's possible for an entire nation to be insane?”
― Terry Pratchett, Monstrous Regiment

“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There is so much that can be fixed by honesty, if you're brave enough to use it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Granted, she didn't want to become evil, but when you spend most of your life trying to see the sun, you begin to wish for rain.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“I feel like my life keeps happening to me, rather than me living it.”
― Hannah Nicole Maehrer, Assistant to the Villain

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver