“Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am your soul and all your souls. When I am gone you are dead. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body?… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image