Elizabeth Lowell Quotes

It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness. And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

Elizabeth Lowell

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• The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Nightmare

• Writing is a form of licensed madness.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
  • Madness
  • Licensed

• About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Rest
  • Design
  • Madness

• Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • Man
  • Army
  • Madness

• I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Things
  • Travel
  • Idea

• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Dream
  • Youth
  • Madness

• There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Reason
  • For Her

• I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Live

• It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Film
  • Nightmare
  • Inescapability

• he was the monster that stalked nightmare and they both knew it

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Monster
  • Nightmare
  • Monsters

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • World
  • Madness
  • Sane

• The poet makes himself a voyant through a long, immense reasoned deranging of all his senses. All the forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he tries to find himself, he exhausts in himself all the poisons, to keep only their quintessences.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Long
  • Suffering
  • Madness

• Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Luck

• I wanted to see something in full daylight; I was sated with the pleasure and comfort of the half light; I had the same desire for the daylight as for water and air. And if seeing was fire, I required the plenitude of fire, and if seeing would infect me with madness, I madly wanted that madness.

  

  Maurice Blanchot
  • Desire
  • Water
  • Pleasure

• To remember everything is a form of madness.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Remember
  • Form
  • Madness

• No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle
  • Madness
  • Existed
  • Great Minds

• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spirit
  • Madness
  • Profit

• I am not fighting machinery as such, but the madness of thinking that machinery saves labor. Men save labor until thousands of them are without work and die of hunger on the streets. I want to secure employment and livelihood not only to part of the human race, but for all. I will not have the enrichment of a few at the expense of the community. At present the machine is helping a small minority to live on the exploitation of the masses. The motive force of this minority is not humanity or love of their kind, but greed and avarice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Humanity
  • Greed

• I think confidence comes from doing something well, working at it hard, and you build it up. It's not something you're born with. You have to build the confidence as you go along.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Up
  • Confidence
  • Working

• There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Leader
  • Follow

• Look within,

  

  H. W. L. Poonja
  • Teacher
  • Differences
  • Teaching

• We need to take excellent care of our customers, and do so at a profit.

  

  Gerard Arpey
  • Care
  • Brilliant
  • Customers

• It was an endless, consuming nightmare that she escaped only in madness. And then the escape was not complete. Part of her knew, always.

  

  Elizabeth Lowell
  • Madness
  • Nightmare
  • Escaped