“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
Source: A Study in Scarlet
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Scottish physician and author 1859–1930Related quotes
“What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine”
they are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine — they are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior, jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.
Letter (5 May 1855), published in Florence Nightingale : An Introduction to Her Life and Family (2001), edited by Lynn McDonald, p. 141
“Farewell happy fields,
Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail.”
Source: Paradise Lost
“With all its horrors and all its failures, life was bearable where there were hot showers.”
Source: A Gift From Earth (1968), Chapter 3, "The Car" (p. 53)
L’homme est ainsi fait, que sa santé est un effet purement négatif; une fois le besoin de manger satisfait, on se figure difficilement les horreurs de la faim; il faut les éprouver, pour les comprendre.
Source: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Ch. XLII: Headlong speed upward through the horrors of darkness
