Famous quotes containing the words beam and/or energy:
“It was at that moment, just after Krug had fallen through the bottom of a confused dream and sat up on the straw with a gaspand just before his reality, his remembered hideous misfortune could pounce upon himit was then that I felt a pang of pity for Adam and slid towards him along an inclined beam of pale lightcausing instantaneous madness, but at least saving him from the senseless agony of his logical fate.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“Reckoned physiologically, everything ugly weakens and afflicts man. It recalls decay, danger, impotence; he actually suffers a loss of energy in its presence. The effect of the ugly can be measured with a dynamometer. Whenever man feels in any way depressed, he senses the proximity of something ugly. His feeling of power, his will to power, his courage, his pridethey decline with the ugly, they increase with the beautiful.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)