Human Disturbance

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or disturbance:

    “Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before.”
    —David Hume (1711–1776)

    “...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)