Alethea Kontis Quotes

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

I wish I was more stupid because I'm either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I'm a bit morbid. There's never anything in between.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Human beings should not be reduced to a state to where they almost get into a fight over a small bar of soap.

Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

When a guy has his ego hurt, he's liable to jump into a fight he doesn't need to have.

I fight with emotion, but I don't fight with anger. I could be angry, but I'm not going to fight with anger because when you fight with anger you can make mistakes.

All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know.

As a professional athlete I can tell you I feel every single emotion and not one of them ever helped me in a fist-fight before.

Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

I have too much potential for collapse. There's an anonymity that makes people feel safe to participate in hatefulness. I like a good old-fashioned fistfight if people are pissed off at each other. I just feel like if you're really mad and want to have a fight, then put your dukes up.

Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you’re gonna get off your plan and that means you’ll lose the fight.

I have to. I've been fighting it all night. I'm going to lose. My battle is as futile as a woman feeling the first pangs of labor and deciding it's an inconvenient time to give birth. Nature wins out. It always does.

Each reaching and aspiration is an instinct with which all nature consists and cöoperates, and therefore it is not in vain. But alas! each relaxing and desperation is an instinct too. To be active, well, happy, implies courage. To be ready to fight in a duel or a battle implies desperation, or that you hold your life cheap.

Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

I think everyone should go crazy at least once in their life. I don't think you've truly lived until you've thought about killing yourself.

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.