1922 Quotes

“Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“Is there hell, or do we make our own on earth?”
― Stephen King, Full Dark, No Stars

“And allow me again to assure you that when you've got yourself going, doing your True Will, you won't find you have any time to get bored.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“because eugenics can “deliver the goods”
― T. Lothrop Stoddard, The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-Man

“...we have no right to decide off-hand that it is an unnatural pleasure to eat sawdust. A man might be constituted so that he liked it. And so long as his peculiarity doesn't damage or interfere with other people, there's no reason why he shouldn't be left alone.

But if it is the man's fixed belief that sawdust eating is essential to human happiness; if he attributes almost everything that happens either to the effects of eating it or not eating it; if he imagines that most of the people he meets are also sawdust-eaters, and above all, if he thinks that the salvation of the world depends entirely upon making laws to compel people to eat sawdust, whether they like it or not, then it is fair to say that his mind is unbalanced on the subject; and that, further, the practice itself, however innocent it may appear, is in that particular case perverse. Sanity consists in the proper equilibrium of ideas in general. That is the only sense in which it is true that genius is connected with insanity.”
― Aleister Crowley, Diary of a Drug Fiend

“The rage in his eyes was of the raw, pure sort that only adolescents can feel. It is rage that doesn’t count the cost.”
― Stephen King

“I like to be alone. Also, I drift, perhaps. When in a crowd, nothing seems to be worth while, and one is an ant in a hurrying mass. Alone, thoughts come with force. They strike one as bluntly as seen things impress themselves.”
― Charles J. Finger, In Lawless Lands