Irationalism Quotes & Sayings

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies- all these are private and except through symbols and at second hand incommunicable. — Aldous Huxley

[When asked how many husbands she had had:] My own, or other people's? — Peggy Guggenheim

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters. — Henry David Thoreau

My idol is Emile Zola. He was a man of the left, so people expected of him a kind of 'Les Miserables,' in which the underdogs are always noble people. But he went out, and found a lot of ambitious, drunk, slothful and mean people out there. Zola simply could not - and was not interested in - telling a lie. — Tom Wolfe

You can't always save the ones you love. — Justine Winter

When I first started dating my husband, I had this weird fascination with the circus and clowns and old carnival things and sideshow freaks and all that. About a month after we started dating, he bought me this amazing black-and-white photo book on the circus in the 1930s, and I started sobbing. — Christina Hendricks

Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known. — Richard Ford

Don't let reality, get in way of your dreams. — Anthony Liccione

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before. — Ron Chernow