What is life but organized energy?
—Arthur C. Clarke, 1958Quotes
If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
—Charles Dickens, 1865The brightest light burns the quickest.
—Olive Beatrice Muir, 1900Oil dependency is not just an economic attachment but appears as a kind of cognitive compulsion.
—Peter Hitchcock, 2010Fire is a natural symbol of life and passion, though it is the one element in which nothing can actually live.
—Susanne K. Langer, 1942Jazz is the result of the energy stored up in America.
—George Gershwin, 1933Fire destroys that which feeds it.
—Simone Weil, c. 1940At the start there’s always energy.
—Suzan-Lori Parks, 2006Will and energy sometimes prove greater than either genius or talent or temperament.
—Isadora Duncan, c. 1902Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.
—Germaine Greer, 1970If I had been born a man, I would have conquered Europe. As I was born a woman, I exhausted my energy in tirades against fate and in eccentricities.
—Marie Bashkirtseff, 1884The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry to equanimity, receptivity, and peace is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal center of energy.
—William James, 1902A first-class man subsists on the matter he destroys.
—Saul Bellow, 1989