Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us. "

Related Quotes:

" The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. "

" The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection. "

" The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity. "

" Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. "

" The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens. "

" I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self. "

" Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them. "

" The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write. "

" I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. "

The Most Important

" Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer. "

" The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump? "

" A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification. "

" I hate the actor and audience business. An author should be in among the crowd, kicking their shins or cheering them on to some mischief or merriment. "

" It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. "

" Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep. "

" I can't do with mountains at close quarters - they are always in the way, and they are so stupid, never moving and never doing anything but obtrude themselves. "

" All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing. "

" I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I tell you, find a woman you can fall in love with. Do it. Let yourself fall in love. If you have not done so already, you are wasting your life. "

" Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told. "

" I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself. "

" One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them. "

" There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. "

" One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality. "

" The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack. "

" Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. "

" The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. "

" It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral. "

" Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. "

" Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life. "

" Money is our madness, our vast collective madness. "