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“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.”

Body Law Certain Bits Brain Sadness Subjects Flow Machines Clock Nerves Chemicals Electricity Mechanic Acid Electrical Electrons Arousal

Book:Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

“It would no doubt be very sentimental to argue - but I would argue it nevertheless - that the peculiar combination of joy and sadness in bell music - both of clock chimes, and of change-ringing - is very typical of England. It is of a piece with the irony in which English people habitually address one another.”

People Joy Doubt Pieces Sadness England Arguing Combination Clock Irony No Doubt Addresses Peculiar Bells Nevertheless Typical Sentimental Chimes Joy And Sadness

Author:A. N. Wilson

“There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have a feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well. So I take the memories as they come, accepting them all, letting them guide me whenever I can.”

Ifs Wells I Can Moments Feelings Would Be Joy Wish Memories Accepting Gone Sadness Guides Clock Guide Me

Book:A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“Much like the hands of a clock go nowhere fast, anxious thoughts run us round-and-round without taking us anywhere!”

Hands Running Sadness Rounds Clock Anxious Anxious Thoughts

Author:Guy Finley

“Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks.”

Heart Sometimes Enough Time Asks Names Cities Sadness Cold Clock Strain His Love Ink Neglected Enough Time Cold Heart

Author:Pablo Neruda

“In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.”

Real Soul Night Three Dark Morning Sadness Sad Despair Anxiety Clock Depressing Dark Night Dark Night Of The Soul Dark Days

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald