#session

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

#asylum #conversation #cut #each #every

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#culture #having #heavy #into #paid

I still like to keep tapes of the few minutes before the final take, things that happen before the session. Maybe it's superstitious, but I believe if I had done things differently - if I had walked around the studio or gone out - it wouldn't have turned out that way. ↗

— Ray Davies

#before #believe #differently #done #few

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

#fact #obsession #other #parts #sex

Crowded classrooms and half-day sessions are a tragic waste of our greatest national resource - the minds of our children. ↗

— Walt Disney

#classrooms #crowded #greatest #minds #national

I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#coming #congress #extra #friends #here

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning? ↗

— Jessica Ennis

#always #bed #days #forward #full-on

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. ↗

— Epicurus

#friendship #greatest #happy #make #much

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. ↗

— Epicurus

#much #possession #riches #their #torment

To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book — to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a quaint shadow falling aslant upon the tapestry, or upon the floor — to lose myself for an entire night in watching the steady flame of a lamp, or the embers of a fire — to dream away whole days over the perfume of a flower — to repeat monotonously some common word, until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased to convey any idea whatever to the mind — to lose all sense of motion or physical existence in a state of absolute bodily quiescence long and obstinately persevered in — Such were a few of the most common and least pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, not, indeed, altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to any thing like analysis or explanation. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#monomania #obsession #dreams