“Elated? Pleased?”
“Those are the closest words. There is an undeniable elation in causing mayhem, in bringing about such massive destruction. As for feeling pleased, I felt pleasure that some of those who died did so because they were stupid enough to believe in gods or afterlives that do not exist, even though I felt a terrible sorrow for them as they died in their ignorance and thanks to their folly.”
Source: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 13 “Some Ways of Dying” (p. 315)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Iain Banks 139
Scottish writer 1954–2013Related quotes
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 16: Outlook Unsettled (p. 136)
“Praise with elation,
Praise every morning,
God's re-creation
Of the new day!”
Morning Has Broken (1931)
State of the Art (2000)
“Go where glory waits thee,
But while fame elates thee,
Oh! still remember me!”
Go Where Glory Waits Thee, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert (2006)
Context: I began my work as a film critic in 1967. I had not thought to be a film critic, and indeed had few firm career plans apart from vague notions that I might someday be a political columnist or a professor of English.
Robert Zonka, who was named the paper's feature editor the same day I was hired at the Chicago Sun-Times, became one of the best friends of a lifetime. One day in March 1967, he called me into a conference room, told me that Eleanor Keen, the paper's movie critic, was retiring, and that I was the new critic. I walked away in elation and disbelief, yet hardly suspected that this day would set the course for the rest of my life.
Source: Reality; The Search for Objectivity or the Quest for a Compelling Argument (1988), p. 48 as cited in: Vincent Kenny (1989).
“He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune’s breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.”
Is demum vir erit, cuius animum neque prosperae res flatu suo efferent nec adversae infringent
Book XLV, sec. 8
History of Rome
“Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?”
Source: Men Without Women