Possessed

Famous quotes containing the word possessed:

“I have gone out, a possessed witch,
haunting the black air, braver at night;
dreaming evil,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,—and then we can hardly see anything else.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)