“Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?”

— Scott Westerfeld , book Specials

Source: Specials

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?" by Scott Westerfeld?

Scott Westerfeld photo

Scott Westerfeld 147

American science fiction writer 1963

Related quotes

“Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

Source: House of Leaves

“The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in.”

Jacques Barzun (1907–2012) Historian

"The Bugbear of Relativism," p. 97
The Culture We Deserve (1989)
Context: The ever-present impulse is to push against restriction and, in so doing, to feel intolerably hemmed in. Thus in practice, every liberation increases the sense of oppression. Nor is the paradox merely in the mind: the laws enacted to secure the rights of every person and group, by creating protective boundaries, create new barriers.

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

Gaston Bachelard (1884–1962) French writer and philosopher

A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books
Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (1988)

“When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames

“Suffering from an evident complex of moral inferiority, a lot of journalists are interested in teaching the Pope how to do the Pope. Suffering from an evident complex of moral superiority, a lot of priests are interested in teaching journalists how to do journalism. But the worst of all are the journalist-priests.”

Leon Bertoletti (1971)

Complexes http://www.hicsuntleones.co.uk/2009/03/complexes.html, Hic Sunt Leones, 22/03/2009

“If you did not suffer from emotions, from feelings, you could be as powerful as we are.”

Stirling Silliphant (1918–1996) American screenwriter and film producer

David Zellaby (Martin Stephens), Village of the Damned, (speaking to his father) (1960)

“what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority”

Audre Lorde (1934–1992) writer and activist

“Omigod,' I said on a sudden flash of sleep-deprived insight. 'You're the big bad wolf.'
There are some similarities.”

Janet Evanovich Twelve Sharp

Source: Twelve Sharp

“He has a mild grave face; a thoughtful sternness, a sorrowful pity: but there is a terrible flash of anger in him too.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

“I would rather die than ever see you suffering this way. I don't want you or any child I ever have or any woman I ever love to go through or feel what you're going through, but it's happened and I don't know what to do.”

Melina Marchetta book Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

Related topics