Spring Tension

Famous quotes containing the words spring and/or tension:

“A spring of love gushed from my heart,
And I blessed them unaware:”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)