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

• I have a lot of stories. I had done a thing called Nightmare in Red White and Blue, which was an anthology of horror films. I narrated it with a man named Joe Maddrey, who's a writer. He came to my house and said, "Lance would you consider doing this?," and I like Joe so much that I completely relaxed.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Done
  • House
  • Red

• Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Love
  • Desire
  • For Her

• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Power
  • Weakness
  • Horror

• 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

• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Honest
  • Musicians
  • Nightmare

• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Name
  • Madness
  • Vision Of Creation

• I think a big part of my job is to make an atmosphere on set and have an attitude that it's about experimentation, and you can't do anything wrong. It's not about judgment, it's not about me kicking over a chair and storming onto set and acting stuff out and telling people to copy what I do. That is a style of directing some people have, but I don't understand it.

  

  Ben Wheatley
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Job

• Y'know, it's funny: I didn't think I'd be playing 'Hold The Line' at 60 years old. I was 19 when I first played that.

  

  Steve Lukather Toto
  • Playing
  • Hold The Line

• 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