Johnno Top Quotes & Sayings

Madness is deep distress. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he for ever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. — Herman Melville

The best aphorisms are ... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs. — William Rounseville Alger

There comes a time in life, when you realize that everything is a dream; only those things which are written down have any possibility of being real. — James Salter

I don't really enjoy it, Mom."
"And you've always felt this way?"
"I don't know. I guess I want a break. — Julie Murphy