(42 quotes found)
“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
“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
“Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.”
Charles Kennedy
“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
“The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency-half tiger, half poet.”
Yehudi Menuhin
“For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.”
Christopher Smart
“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February.”
Mark Twain
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.”
William Ellery Channing
“It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.”
Christopher Lasch
