Sebastian Faulks Quotes

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

I know. I was there. I saw the great void in your soul, and you saw mine.

Time makes us pointless.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever havin...

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

Until we can navigate in time, I'm not sure that we can prove that what happened is real.

. . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

We're not really conscious of what we're doing most of the time.

I wonder what it's like to be dead.

There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?No. The...

I suppose it was a dream that lasted really about fifty years. By the time universal education had begun to work properly, say 1925, and the time the first teachers started to hold back information, s...

I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

There is nothing more sir, than to love and be loved.

I've missed you, Frank.''I haven't breathed since you left.

As he rounded the corner, he saw two dozen men, naked to the waist, digging a hole thirty yards square at the side of the path. For a moment he was baffled. It seemed to have no agricultural purpose;...

The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old stories so well delivered. Jack himeself laughed a little, but he was able to see...

As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off the spoon, Elizabeth was struck, not for the first time, by the thought that he...

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.