“The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
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The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“Life's a match in a gas tank. Don't ever mourn the ebbing tide.”
Lyrics, Light Grenades (2006)
“He asks from men all that he has in himself, though even lions would not claim to match that.”
From the poem "To Sayf Al-Dawla" http://web.archive.org/web/20140708175325/http://www.princeton.edu/~arabic/poetry/al_mu_to_sayf.html
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), An Absurd Reasoning, p. 155
Source: Arabella and the Battle of Venus (2017), Chapter 3, “Seeking Passage” (p. 46)
“A love-match was the only thing for happiness, where the parties could any way afford it.”
Castle Rackrent, "Continuation of the Memoirs of the Rackrent Family"; Tales and Novels, vol. 1, p. 46.
“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
As quoted in The Chip War : The Battle for the World of Tomorrow (1989) by Fred Warshofsky, p. 21.
