“Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Only fools think our attitude to our fellow men is a thing distinct from our attitude to 'lesser' life on this planet. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If Rome, a city of the vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If Rome, was a city of vulgar living, had been depressing after Greece, London, a city of the drab dead, was fifty… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always goes to war. It is not social… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“… if you knew the mess my life was in … the waste of it … the uselessness of it. I have… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“In spite of her superficial independence, her fundamental need was to cling. All her life was an attempt to disprove it; and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I was worse off than even Alison was; she hated life, I hated mysef. I had created nothing, I belonged to nothingness,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“It was an unforgettable painting; it set a dense golden halo of light round the most trivial of moments, so that the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Boredom, the numbing, annual predictability of life hung over the staff like a cloud. And it was real boredom, not my modish… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“He stared to sea. "I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Each pleasure we feel is a pleasure less; each day a stroke on a calendar. What we will not accept is that… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I am going to explain to you why we went to war. Why mankind always does to war. It is not social… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“8. You hate the political buisness of nationality. You hate everything, in politics and art and everything else, that is not genuine… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“In a vivid insight, a flash of black lightning, he saw that all life was parallel: that evolution was not vertical, ascending… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Each death laid a dreadful charge of complicity on the living; each death was incongenerous, its guilt irreducible, its sadness immortal; a… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with provincial life. Everyone knows everyone and there is no mystery. No romance. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“and like most people who have spent much of their adult life being emotionally dishonest, I overcalculated the sympathy a final being… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Maurice once said to me- when I had asked him a question rather like yours - he said, "An answer is always… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“My only certainty in life is that I shall one day die. I can be certain of nothing else in the future.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The stairs were certainly steep; and in those days, when they could rarely see their own feet, women were always falling; it… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a young prince who believed in all things but three. He did not believe in princesses,… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I do not plan my fiction any more than I normally plan woodland walks; I follow the path that seems most promising at any… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“The evolution of human mentality has put us all in vitro now, behind the glass wall of our own ingenuity.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women see the relationships between objects. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night? — John Fowles Copy Share Image
There is only one good definition of God: the freedom that allows other freedoms to exist. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“Long afterwards I realized why some men, racing drivers and their like, become addicted to speed. There are those of us who never see… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
