Quote by Herman Melville
The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ach

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. – Herman Melville

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Age
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The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass. – Herman Melville

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Survival
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The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate societys logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap. – Cynthia Ozick

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Were not in Wonderland anymore Alice. – Charles Manson

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Madness

Much Madness is divinest Sense — to a discerning Eye — much Sense — the starkest Madness — – Emily Dickinson

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Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, ages it is the rule. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill

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Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. – Ambrose Bierce

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When youre told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isnt going to leak. – Oliver North

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[N]egative experiences… and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people. – Stephen G. Scalese, The Whisper in Your Heart

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