What I needed with all my starved and silent soul was just that particular way of shouting back at the world.
Waiting in fear is surely one of the most awful of human tribulations.
To overthrow a tyrant, whether in public or in private, one must learn to hate.
To lose somebody is to lose not only their person but all those modes and manifestations into which their person has flowed outwards; so that in losing a beloved one may find so many things, pictures,...
This talk of love means very little. Love is not a feeling. It can be tested. Love is action, it is silence. It's not the emotional straining and scheming for possession that you used to think it was.
There are no spare unrecorded encapsulated moments in which we can behave 'anyhow' and then expect to resume life where we left off.
The true rose, the miracle of nature, owed nothing to the hand of man.
The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction.
The notion that 'it all somehow must make sense', or 'there is a best decision here', preserves from despair: the difficulty is how to entertain this consoling notion in a way which is not false.
The next day round about ten o'clock I was walking down Welbeck Street. I was in a bad temper. By daylight the whole project seemed very much less attractive. I felt that to be snubbed by a film star...
The human soul is not framed for continued proximity, and the result of this enforced neighbourhood is often an appalling loneliness for which the rules of the game forbid assuagement.
Patchway had the enviable countryman's capacity, which is shared only by great actors, of standing by and saying nothing, and yet existing, large, present, and at ease.
Love generates, or rather reveals, something which may be called absolute charm. In the beloved nothing is gauche. Every move of the head, every tone of the voice, every laugh or grunt or cough or twi...
Kant abolished God and made man God in His stead. We are still living in the age of the Kantian man, or Kantian man-god. Kant's conclusive exposure of the so-called proofs of the existence of God, his...
I saw her simplicity, her ignorance, her childish unkindness, her unpretty anxious little face. She was not beautiful or brilliantly clever. How false it is to say that love is blind. I could even jud...
I can't sleep. The pills don't work anymore. I'm just saving them up now. It's no good imagining gardens and garden gates, that used to help. Now I lie for hours staring at the ceiling. Human life is...
He was not notably vertebrate and could hardly look after himself, so how could he look after Crystal?
He simply would not have married anybody whom he loved in that rather simple mediocre sort of way.
He had lived a chaste life really. It was his accusers and not his crimes which troubled him.
Freedom, we find out, is not an inconsequential chucking of one’s weight about, it is the disciplined overcoming of self. Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an ina...