Quotes for All
In my view the time for rousing revolutionary literature has passed, because the revolution has already revolutionised itself to death and has left behind only bitterness and a sort of weariness, listlessness and even nausea. Gao Xingjian
I ate while I was taking chemo. The doctors didn’t know. I really didn’t get any nausea. I didn’t have side effects. I would be drained for a day and a half. Eric Davis
[T]he progress of civilization corresponds with the spread of general nausea. Edgar Saltus
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia’s fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him. Friedrich Nietzsche
The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal … Read more
Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life’s nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in \”another\” or \”better\” life. Friedrich Nietzsche
Every page must explode, whether through seriousness, profundity, turbulence, nausea, the new, the eternal, annihilating nonsense, enthusiasm for principles, or the way it is printed. Francis Picabia
I repeatedly refuse to make any practical decisions. I get a feeling of nausea about practicality. Francesco Clemente
Cancer is my own private war. The strain, the nausea, the fever take turns challenging my strength, my mind and my spirit. Farrah Fawcett
Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher. Dean Koontz