Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.“ „Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:AfflictionPassion Related quotes „Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.“ — Emil M. Cioran „The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions, by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis.“ — Sigmund Freud „There’s only so long you can feel sorry for a person before you come to feel that their affliction is an act of malice committed by them against you.“ — Margaret Atwood „A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.“ — W. H. Auden
„Zeal, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:AfflictionPassion