"Equus" Quotes
A psychiatrist attempts to understand the psychological motives behind a young man's violent blinding of horses, uncovering themes of passion, worship, and societal repression.
plays | 112 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.
The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
The horse will not be mastered.
I want to be a human being, not a human doing.
The normal is the good smile in a child's eyes; it is also the dead stare in a million adults.
The essence of a feeling in a horse - it's like a spiderweb. It's there, all right, but you can't see it, you can't touch it, you can't measure it, can't weigh it - it's just there.
The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes; it is also the dead stare in a million adults.
I remember him, not as a thing of fear, but as one who loved beauty.
A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave. It sniffs – it sucks – it strokes its eyes over the whole uncountable range. Suddenly one strikes. Why? Moments snap together like magnets, forging a chain of shackles. Why? I can trace them. I can even, with time, pull them apart again. But why at the start they were ever magnetized at all – just those particular moments of experience and no others – I don’t know. And nor does anyone else.
