William S. Burroughs Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• There is no intensity of love or feeling that does not involve the risk of crippling hurt. It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

  William S. Burroughs

  Hurt, Feelings, Risk

• I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Fear, Men, Nuts

  "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks".

• In homosexual sex you know exactly what the other person is feeling, so you are identifying with the other person completely. In heterosexual sex you have no idea what the other person is feeling.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sex, Ideas, Feelings

• That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.

  William S. Burroughs

  Heart, Feelings, Stills

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.6, Grove Press

• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

• Many doctors are drawn to this profession (psychology) because they have an innate deficiency of insight into the motives, feelings and thoughts of others, a deficiency they hope to remedy by ingesting masses of data.

  William S. Burroughs

  Doctors, Data, Psychology

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

  William S. Burroughs

  Moving, Feelings, Vision

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• There isn't a feeling you can get on drugs that you can't get without drugs.

  William S. Burroughs

  Addiction, Drug, Feelings

• The hallucinogens produce visionary states, sort of, but morphine and its derivatives decrease awareness of inner processes, thoughts and feelings. They are pain killers; pure and simple. They are absolutely contraindicated for creative work, and I include in the lot alcohol, morphine, barbiturates, tranquilizers the whole spectrum of sedative drugs.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Simple, Creative

  William S. Burroughs (2001). “Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960-1997”, Semiotext

• I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.

  William S. Burroughs

  Feelings, Pressure, Expansion

  Source: realitystudio.org

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