Quotes of: Edgar-allan-poe Keyword

Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Sigmund Freud

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.

Sigmund Freud

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.

Sigmund Freud

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Sigmund Freud

When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has.

Sigmund Freud

I came from a farming background, and my career was teaching.

Seamus Heaney

I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

Siri Hustvedt

Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Siri Hustvedt

I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.

Siri Hustvedt

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

I wish I wrote more about the world at more distance from myself.

Sharon Olds

Maybe in order to understand sex fully/one has to risk being destroyed by it.

Sharon Olds

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

Sophocles

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Sophocles

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Sophocles

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

Sophocles

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

Sophocles

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife.

Sophocles

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.

Sara Teasdale