Doltishness Quotes & Sayings

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. — Liz Brixius

The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue. — Emil Cioran

There is not a string attuned to mirth but has its chord of melancholy. — Thomas Hood

Comedy clubs are arguably one of the last bastions of uncensored, public free speech. — Ted Alexandro

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance. — Jon Katz

Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing. — Voltaire

One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we call it genius — William Crashaw

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. — Florence King

Can I tell you one thing?" Melonhead says.
I swallow. "Sure."
"One day isn't your whole life, Murph." He waits until I look at him. "A day is just a day."
I scoff and slouch in the chair. "So what are you saying? That people shouldn't judge me on one mistake? Tell that to Judge Ororos."
He leans in against the table. "No, kid. I'm saying you shouldn't judge yourself for it. — Brigid Kemmerer