"There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear."

Johnson, Ben on Hell
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"And again: No more gods! no more gods! Man is King, Man is God! -- But the great Faith is Love!"

Rimbaud, Arthur on God
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"Anyone can hate. It costs to love."

Williamson, John on Hatred
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"You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger."

Buddha on Anger
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"The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him."

Baldwin, James on Writers and Writing
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"Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating."

Neville, Richard on Drugs
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"Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Brookner, Anita on Writers and Writing
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

Moore, Marianne on Editing and Editors
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"An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate."

De Chateaubriand on Originality
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"Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use."

Twain, Mark on Writers and Writing
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"His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."

Wilde, Oscar on Writers and Writing
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"A writer and nothing else; a man alone in a room with the English language, trying to get human feelings right."

Hutchens, John K. on Writers and Writing
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"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

Woolf, Virginia on Writers and Writing
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"He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted."

Auerbach, Red on Confidence
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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words."

Frost, Robert on Poetry and Poets
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"Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."

Aristotle on Poetry and Poets
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"Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those we have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these things."

Dickinson, Emily on Poetry and Poets
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"Homer has taught all other poets the are of telling lies skillfully."

Aristotle on Poetry and Poets
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"A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."

Abbey, Edward on Patriotism
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"The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Pain
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"The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain."

Byron, Lord on Pain
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"Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?"

Aeschylus on Pain
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"He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep - pain that cannot forget; Falls drop by drop upon the heart, And in our own despite, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God."

Aeschylus on God
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"It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on Addiction
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"In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you."

Holiday, Billie on Addiction
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"To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off."

Montague, C. E. on Addiction
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"An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be."

Orczy, Baroness on Apologies
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"Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God."

Broun, Heywood on Atheism
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on Hatred
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"Hatred is the madness of the heart."

Byron, Lord on Hatred
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."

Gide, Andre on Hatred
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"We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred."

Maturin, Basil W. on Hatred
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"And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths."

Artaud, Antonin on Madness
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