Top 5 Quotes by Helen Eustis

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

What you were yesterday is fixed for always, making its mark on what you are today, what you will be tomorrow.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.8, Library of America

It isn't ever the world you fight. Always, always, it's yourself.

Fighting, World, Conflict

when ... I've thought of madness, it seems most easily explained to me as poetry in action. A life of symbol rather than reality. On paper one can understand Gulliver, or Kafka, or Dante. But let a man go about behaving as if he were a giant or a midget, or caught in a cosmic plot directed at himself, or in heaven or hell, and we feel horror - we want to disavow him to proclaim him as far removed as possible from ourselves.

Helen Eustis

Reality, Men, Heaven

Helen Eustis (2015). “The Horizontal Man: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.245, Library of America

when anybody talks to me as if I hadn't good sense, I'm immediately tempted to act as if I hadn't. Like sticking beans up your nose. ... you know the story about the mother who said to her children the last thing before she went out, Now be sure not to stick beans up your nose? Naturally, they would never have thought of it if she hadn't put the idea into their heads.

Helen Eustis

Mother, Children, Ideas