The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you…a subtle and immortal spirit.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“Everything in life is miraculous. It rests within the power of each of us to awaken from a dragging nightmare of life… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“To submit is the great lesson. I too was once a dreamer: and in dreams there are lessons. But to submit, without… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I have read that the secret of gallantry is to accept the pleasures of life leisurely, and its inconveniences with a shrug;… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I am Manuel. I have lived in the loneliness which is common to all men, but the difference is that I have known it.… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you…a subtle and immortal spirit.” — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
People never want to be told anything they do not believe already. — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
And one would worship a woman whom all perfections dower, But the other smiles at transparent wiles; and he quotes from Schopenhauer . Thus… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
