La Folie Quotes & Sayings

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? — Jack Kerouac

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder. — Joyce Giraud

When I wrote my first film and then directed it and I looked at it for the first time on what's called an assembly, you look at this movie which is every scene you wrote, every line of dialogue you wrote and you want to kill yourself the minute you see it. It's like, 'How did I write something so horrible?' — Bruce Joel Rubin

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable! — Marie Corelli

He smashed all my reservations that he couldn't give me what I desired and proved love could change anyone - no matter how destroyed. — Pepper Winters

In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere. — Confucius

Creative living, or the life of a creator, seems like a leap into the unknown only because "normal life" is rigid and traumatized. — Stephen Nachmanovitch

He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
[Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I'm the way I am because this is how God made me - God and my own father - and that is how I will die. — Kelly Gardiner

Look,' he said, 'they are just Germans who had Communism for forty years and went backwards, and all they want now is the money to have big TV sets and holidays in Majorca like everyone else. It was an experiment and it failed. — Anna Funder

All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal. — Dorian Yates

am prosperous. I am coming into overflow. — Joel Osteen

The belief that value judgments are not subject, in the last analysis, to rational control, encourages the inclination to make irresponsible assertions regarding right and wrong or good and bad. One evades discussion of serious issues by the simple device of passing them off as value problems, whereas, to say the least, many of these conflicts arose out of man's very agreement regarding values. — Leo Strauss