Frantic Quotes - Page 6

• There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Morning, Heart

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• Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.

  Charles Frazier

  Book, Dollars, Littles

  Charles Frazier (2011). “Nightwoods: A Novel”, p.34, Random House

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• To write is to pour one’s innermost self passionately upon the tempting paper, at such frantic speed that sometimes one’s hand struggles and rebels, overdriven by the impatient god which guides it - and to find, next day, in place of the golden bough that bloomed miraculously in that dazzling hour, a withered bramble and a stunted flower.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Struggle, Flower, Writing

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• Every day you amass knowledge in a frantic race against death that death must win. You want to find out everything in the time you have; yet in the end you wonder why you bothered, it'll all be lost. I keep trying to explain this to anyone who will listen.

  Derek Raymond

  Winning, Race, Trying

  Derek Raymond (2011). “He Died with His Eyes Open: Factory 1”, p.35, Profile Books

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• You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, "The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.

  Saul Bellow

  Reading, Eye, Two

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• The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Children, Grief

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Disappointment, Grief, Believe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2988, Delphi Classics

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• Love is the great intangible. ... Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate -- love commands a vast army of moods. Hoping for victory, limping from the latest skirmish, lovers enter the arena once again. ... Love is the white light of emotion. ... Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one can agree on what it is.

  Diane Ackerman

  Army, Love Is, White

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• The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its servitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.

  Henry Adams

  Power, Sky, Cities

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.487, Booklassic

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• There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.

  Gertrude Kasebier

  Photography, Art, Apology

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• There are things we can do to give us a little more attention.... I've got to look more frantic.

  George H. W. Bush

  Giving, Political, Looks

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• How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all phantoms; for the feeblest ray of reason might surely show us, that not only its attainment, but its being, was impossible..... There is no such thing in the universe. There can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment.

  John Ruskin

  Stars, Men, Sea

  John Ruskin “The stones of Venice (cont'd) Seven lamps of architecture. Lectures on architecture and painting, delivered at Edinburgh in Nov. 1853. An inquiry into some of the conditions at present affecting the study of architecture in our schools”

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• So man's insanity is heaven's sense, and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God.

  Moby

  Men, Heaven, Insanity

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• There was something frantic in their blooming, as if they knew that frost was near and then the bitter cold. They'd lived through all the heat and noise and stench of summertime, and now each widely opened flower was like a triumphant cry, "We will, we will make seed before we die."

  Harriette Simpson Arnow

  Flower, Summertime, Bitter Cold

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• In the chapter on study we considered the importance of observing ourselves to see how often our speech is a frantic attempt to explain and justify our actions. Having seen this in ourselves, let's experiment with doing deeds without any words of explanation whatever. We note our sense of fear that people will misunderstand why we have done what we have done. We seek to allow God to be our justifier.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Done, Deeds

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• There is a frantic race to merchandise tinsel and trash under the guise of 'modernism.'

  Raymond Loewy

  Race, Trash, Modernism

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• In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

  Alexander Lowen

  Running, Fear, Long

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• Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Simple, Faces

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