Gentle Misanthropy Quotes & Sayings

She'll have to get over it, then. Are you going to let her drop out of Dauntless for a stupid reason like not being able to walk? Zeke is quiet for a few seconds. His eyes shift over my face, and he squints, as if weighing and measuring me. Then he turns and bends and wraps his arms around me. it's been so long since someone hugged me that I stiffen. Then I relax, and let the gesture force warmth over my body ... — Veronica Roth

... modern man no longer communicates with the madman [ ... ] There is no common language: or rather, it no longer exists; the constitution of madness as mental illness, at the end of the eighteenth century, bears witness to a rupture in a dialogue, gives the separation as already enacted, and expels from the memory all those imperfect words, of no fixed syntax, spoken falteringly, in which the exchange between madness and reason was carried out. The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence. — Michel Foucault

I always wanted to be a painter. I loved painting. I went on three different art courses but had no talent whatsoever. — John Burnside

Literature is air, and I'm suffocating in mediocrity. — Armand Assante

Such absolute impenetrability is past comprehension — Charlotte Bronte

One cannot find a healthy economy anywhere in the world that does not have a strong industrial base, period. — William Clay Ford Jr.