psychological unrest Quotes

I am in a very unsettled condition, as the oyster said when they poured melted butter all over his back.

The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.

Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.