Human Disturbance

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or disturbance:

    “The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
    —Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

    “...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)