Human Disturbance

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or disturbance:

“I never learned which party was victorious, nor the cause of the war; but I felt for the rest of that day as if I had had my feelings excited and harrowed by witnessing the struggle, the ferocity and carnage, of a human battle before my door.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“...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)