Read day and night,
Read day and night, devour books – these sleeping pills – not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions. Emile M. Cioran
Spleen
Above all things physical,
Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside – to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen. Ellen DeGeneres
Dreams don’t come true.
Dreams don’t come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. Douglas Coupland
You’re right, a spleen
You’re right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don’t need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work. Douglas Coupland
My lawyers will fricassee
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow. Dan Brown
Tis not the wholesome
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen. Ben Jonson
I missed him so
I missed him so much that I had physical sensations of loss, all over my body. Like one minute I was missing an arm, the next my spleen. It was making me feel sick, like throwing up. Augusten Burroughs
Now I am just
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats. Anne Sexton
Liberals claim to love
Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is to call you gay. Liberals are gays’ biggest champions on issues most gays couldn’t care less about, like gay marriage or taxpayer funding of photos of men with bullwhips up their … Read more
Good-humor, gay spirits, are
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. Amos Bronson Alcott