Editing Quotes

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face; You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

G.K. Chesterton wrote: “Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist.  Children already know that dragons exist.  Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.”

“Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters.”  Francisco Goya.

“Let us consider that we are all insane.  It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles…” Mark Twain.

Author Harlan Ellison wrote, “The minute people fall in love, they become liars.”

The Taoist philosopher Lao-tze once wrote, “He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Voltaire said, “The man visited by ecstasies and visions, who takes dreams for realities, is an enthusiast.  The man who supports his madness with murder is a fanatic.”

“No mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.” Sigmund Freud.

“He who does not punish evil, commands it to be done.” Leonardo da Vinci.

“One need not be a chamber to be haunted, one need not to be a house.  The brain has corridors surpassing material place.” Emily Dickinson.

Kingman Brewster, Jr. said, “There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.”

“In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural, there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire – a pariah even among demons.” Writer Montague Summers.

Writer Cyril Connolly said, “Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.” - Veronica Valentine needs this one.

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.  And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”  Friedrich Nietzsche.