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“And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.”

Way Kind Joy Born Wonder Novel Written Ignorance Sorrow Madness Psychotic

Book:Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954

“There is evil poured upon the earth from the overflowings of corruption-- Sickness, and poverty, and pain, and guilt, and madness, and sorrow; But, as the water from a fountain riseth and sinketh to its level, Ceaselessly toileth justice to equalize the lots of men.”

Men Earth Pain Evil Water Justice Levels Poverty Sorrow Madness Guilt Corruption Sickness Fountain

Author:William Hazlitt

“Who looks at me, beholdeth sorrows all, All pain, all torture, woe and all distress; I have no need on other harms to call, As anguish, languor, cruel bitterness, Discomfort, dread, and madness more and less; Methinks from heaven above the tears must rain In pity for my harsh and cruel pain.”

Needs Looks Pain Heaven Tears Sorrow Rain Madness Harm Pity Torture Bitterness Dread Distress Harsh Look At Me Anguish Woe Discomfort

Book:Troilus and Cressida

Source: Troilus and Cressida

“God made both tears and laughter, and both for kind purposes; for as laughter enables mirth and surprise to breathe freely, so tears enable sorrow to vent itself patiently. Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair and madness.”

Kind Made Purpose Tears Becoming Sorrow Despair Laughter Madness Surprise Breathe Hinder Mirth

Book:The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

Source: The Religion of the Heart: A Manual of Faith and Duty

“Of lunacy, Innumerous were the causes; humbled pride, Ambition disappointed, riches lost, And bodily disease, and sorrow, oft By man inflicted on his brother man; Sorrow, that, made the reason drunk, and yet Left much untasted. So the cup was fill'd.”

Men Made Reason Lost Left Causes Brother Pride Sorrow Disease Ambition Madness Riches Drunk Cups Disappointed Lunacy

Book:Pollok's Course of Time

Source: Pollok's Course of Time

“In his deepest heart there surge tremendous shame and madness mixed with sorrow and love whipped on by frenzy and a courage aware of its own worth.”

Heart Literature Sorrow And Love Madness Shame Frenzy

Author:Virgil

“Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.”

Turns Loss Sorrow Despair Madness Patient Rage Plague Be Patient Impatience Fever Amazement

Author:Jeremy Taylor

“And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the arrogance of men expand, if not to the point of bursting then to that of the most unbridled folly, indeed madness, if the pressure of want, toil, calamity and frustration were removed from their life. One can even say that we require at all times a certain quantity of care or sorrow or want, as a ship requires ballast, in order to keep on a straight course.”

Ifs Men Want Body Care Certain Order Courses Sorrow Madness Pressure Ships All Time Atmosphere Arrogance Folly Frustration Quantity Toil Calamity Bursting Ballast

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it's unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can't touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.”

Ifs Persons Courses Felt Love Is Cutting Wife Particular Sorrow Madness Fellows Patient Edges Stranger Allies Sole Minors Unendurable Perhaps Love

Book:The Story of a Marriage

Source: The Story of a Marriage