--- title: "16 Want Quotes By Stephen Fry" description: "16 Want quotes by Stephen Fry. Plus more from Stephen Fry and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/stephen-fry-573_adolescent_no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understoo_936074.png" --- > [No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understood-which-is-why-they-complain/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/stephen-fry-573_adolescent_no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understoo_936074.png) > [I certainly don't want to be formulaic. I want to be honest and authentic and everything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-certainly-don-t-want-to-be-formulaic-i-want-to-be-honest-and/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be6/stephen-fry-573_authentic_i-certainly-don-t-want-to-be-formulaic-i_1209649.png) > [If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to-be-better-spirited-than-to/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/43a/stephen-fry-573_god_if-there-were-a-god-he-would-want-us-to_1061397.png) > [I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-want-you-to-know-that-you-are-not-alone-in-your-being-alone/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/stephen-fry-573_cousin_i-want-you-to-know-that-you-are-not-alon_632852.png) > [As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/as-i-say-i-don-t-want-to-kill-myself-i-just-wouldn-t-mind-dying/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d63/stephen-fry-573_death_as-i-say-i-don-t-want-to-kill-myself-i-j_292087.png) > [One of the reasons I love the online world is that although that exists in abundance you can choose absolutely which part…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/one-of-the-reasons-i-love-the-online-world-is-that-although-that/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/086/stephen-fry-573_abundance_one-of-the-reasons-i-love-the-online-wor_929240.png) > [It was behaviour that I thought not far from racism, sexism or any other kind of prejudice or snobbery. 'Because you are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-was-behaviour-that-i-thought-not-far-from-racism-sexism-or-any/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/stephen-fry-573_behaviour_it-was-behaviour-that-i-thought-not-far_1050027.png) > [I'd probably want to teach at university, because children would drive me insane. I suspect it would be English literature, Shakespeare and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-d-probably-want-to-teach-at-university-because-children-would-drive/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1ee/stephen-fry-573_books_i-d-probably-want-to-teach-at-university_1276905.png) > [It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-is-exhausting-knowing-that-most-of-the-time-the-phone-rings-most/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/adf/stephen-fry-573_email_it-is-exhausting-knowing-that-most-of-th_848476.png) > [I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-can-understand-the-greek-idea-that-there-are-these-these-principles/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/97b/stephen-fry-573_aries_i-can-understand-the-greek-idea-that-the_1797708.png) > [To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/to-be-human-and-to-be-adult-means-constantly-to-be-in-the-grip-of/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/stephen-fry-573_adolescence_to-be-human-and-to-be-adult-means-consta_1430933.png) > [There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/there-comes-a-time-when-the-blankness-of-the-future-is-just-so/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/92c/stephen-fry-573_alive_there-comes-a-time-when-the-blankness-of_2169486.png) > [Most of the problem I see amongst friends and I've experienced amongst myself is when people haven't accommodated the inequality that they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/most-of-the-problem-i-see-amongst-friends-and-i-ve-experienced/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bce/stephen-fry-573_giving_most-of-the-problem-i-see-amongst-friend_1754284.jpg) > [First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge.It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/first-love-is-unrequited-ultimately-because-it-s-so-huge-it-s-such-an/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6ff/stephen-fry-573_atom-bomb_first-love-is-unrequited-ultimately-beca_2972835.jpg) > [At John Schlesinger's funeral at a synagogue in St John's Wood some years ago the person I stood next to said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/at-john-schlesinger-s-funeral-at-a-synagogue-in-st-john-s-wood-some/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/24b/stephen-fry-573_believe_at-john-schlesinger-s-funeral-at-a-synag_361762.png) > [I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-said-it-before-and-i-ll-say-it-again-books-are-dead-plays-are-dead/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a32/stephen-fry-573_amazed_i-said-it-before-and-i-ll-say-it-again-b_1462241.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Stephen Fry > [“...Catholic versus Protestant, essentially. It's that kind of fight. ... And it goes on to this day. Will we never learn? Who knows? Religion.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/catholic-versus-protestant-essentially-it-s-that-kind-of-fight-and-it/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/how-dare-you-how-dare-you-create-a-world-in-which-there-is-such/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“Look at the kind of people who most object to the childishness and cheapness of celebrity culture. Does one really want to side with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/look-at-the-kind-of-people-who-most-object-to-the-childishness-and/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“The object of love should feel honoured or flattered, responsible in some way. Instead he felt insulted, degraded and revolted. More than that, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-object-of-love-should-feel-honoured-or-flattered-responsible-in/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [The only people who are obsessed with food are anorexics and the morbidly obese. That, in erotic terms, is the Catholic church, in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-only-people-who-are-obsessed-with-food-are-anorexics-and-the/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/to-me-reason-is-as-spiritual-as-anything-else-the-beauty-of-reason/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [The stranger might laugh and seem to enjoy the writing, but you hug to yourself the thought that they didn't quite understand its force…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-stranger-might-laugh-and-seem-to-enjoy-the-writing-but-you-hug-to/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [“The future is a much bigger deal than the past,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/the-future-is-a-much-bigger-deal-than-the-past/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-gather-a-repulsive-nobody-writing-in-a-paper-no-one-of-any-decency/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [I've never had any illusions about being a lead actor in films, because lead actors have to be of a certain kind. Apart from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-ve-never-had-any-illusions-about-being-a-lead-actor-in-films/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/because-let-s-face-it-i-do-not-get-offered-the-parts-that-brad-pitt/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/i-will-defend-the-absolute-value-of-mozart-over-miley-cyrus-of-course/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/you-can-t-just-say-there-is-a-god-because-the-world-is-beautiful-you/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [If you know someone who's depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn't a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/if-you-know-someone-who-s-depressed-please-resolve-never-to-ask-them/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) > [It's as if scientists exert every effort of will they possess deliberately to find the least significant problems in the world and explain them.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/it-s-as-if-scientists-exert-every-effort-of-will-they-possess/) [Stephen Fry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-fry/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/stephen-fry/#itemlist", "name": "16 Want Quotes By Stephen Fry", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stephen Fry" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-fry/no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understood-which-is-why-they-complain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/stephen-fry-573_adolescent_no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understoo_936074.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/stephen-fry-573_adolescent_no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understoo_936074.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a2/stephen-fry-573_adolescent_no-adolescent-ever-wants-to-be-understoo_936074.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.” — Stephen Fry", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I certainly don't want to be formulaic. 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