“It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds”
Emily Bronte
“This is a peculiar type of transition. Serbia will move on when these issues are resolved.”
Danijel Pantic
“There is a peculiar burning odor in the room, like explosives. the kitchen fills with smoke and the hot, sweet, ashy smell of scorched cookies. The war has begun.”
Alison Lurie
“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”
Charles Kennedy
“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'”
David Hume
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
