Dianah Neff Quotes & Sayings

It has been remarked that when one passes among the patients of the psychiatric ward, he encounters among the several sufferers every aspect of normal personality in morbid exaggeration ... As one passes through the modern centers of enterprise and of higher learning, he is met with similar autonomies of development ... The scientist, the technician, the scholar, who have left the One for the Many are puffed up with vanity over their ability to describe precisely some minute portion of the world. Men so obsessed with fragments can no more be reasoned with than other psychotics. — Richard M. Weaver

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. — Abdulrazak Gurnah

Because I am well read, I know what a terrible cliche it is to shout, "I *hate* you. I never *asked* to be born," so I refrain. — Caitlin Moran

They can wound, stories, they can blister. — Lauren Groff

Anyone who has two shirts when someone has none is not a christian. — Lenny Bruce

Happiness is the natural state for someone who knows that there's nothing to know. — Byron Katie

Of course, the male-directed films make more money. — Catherine Hardwicke

Control over a woman is the only form of dominance most men possess, for most men are merely subjects of more powerful men. — Marilyn French

Cynics fooled themselves into thinking they had sussed out the worst-case scenarios and were invariably surprised by how life trumped them. Dreamers were often disappointed - but seldom in themselves. — Laura Lippman