Mandus Haakansson Quotes & Sayings

Writers, especially poets, are particularly prone to madness. There exists a striking association between creativity and manic depression. Why are more creative people prone to madness? They have more than average amounts of energies and abilities to see things in a fresh and original way - then because they also have depression, I think they're more in touch with human suffering. — Nick Flynn

The caricature of what George Osborne is doing on the fiscal side is absurd. If you read some of the commentary, particularly from the left, you would think he was turning the clock back to the 1930s. — Nick Clegg

One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble. — Bill Willingham

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy. — Emily Bronte

So on this windy sea of land, the Fiend Walked up and down alone bent on his prey. — John Milton

Often in this our life do we begin by cursing men and end by loving them. A sense of the common fallibility of all flesh makes us kin. No man is lovable who is invincible. — Neville Cardus

One of the most efficient strategies we can create towards a difficult task is to believe it is simple. — Daniel Marques

A status not freely chosen or entered into by an individual or a group is necessarily one of oppression and the oppressed are by their nature (i.e., oppressed) forever in ferment and agitation against their condition and what they understand to be their oppressors. If not by overt rebellion or revolution, then in the thousand and one ways they will devise with and without consciousness to alter their condition — Lorraine Hansberry