Emotions and Feelings

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets, reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. God has kept that good wine until now.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself.

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover.

To be intimate with a foolish friend is like going to bed to a razor.

When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Fear has many eyes.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart’s controls.

Fear has a smell, as love does.

Fanatics fear liberty more than they fear persecution.

One defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one’s intelligence.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates for a secret doubt.

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go by any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

In spite of illness, in spite even of the arch-enemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

Fame is a powerful aphrodisiac.