Quote Archive for: Jan 1, 2001 to Nov 30, 2000
"Animals are nothing else than the figures of our virtues and our vices, straying before our eyes, the visible phantoms of our souls. God shows them to us in order to induce us to reflect."
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Isabel F. Hapgood trans.)
"I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk."
Max von Sydow as Antonius Block in The Seventh Seal, written by Ingmar Bergman
"All that had constituted his life, even to his name, was effaced; he was no longer even Jean Valjean; he was number 24,601."
-Victor Hugo, Les Miserables (Isabel F. Hapgood trans.)
"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
- Mark Twain
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
- Robert Frost
"And I find, given time, I can bend like a willow"
-Ian Anderson, from Jethro Tull's Bends Like a Willow