Best Christopher Isherwood Quotes
- But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one year later than last year. Every now… All
- Waking up begins with saying am and now. That which has awoken then lies for a while staring up at the ceiling and down into… Awoken
- I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking. Recording the man shaving at the window opposite and the woman in… All
- Think of two people, living together day after day, year after year, in this small space, standing elbow to elbow cooking at the same small… Aggressively
- What it sees there isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament. Expression
- A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity. When for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and… Absolute
- These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one… Bed
- In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now… Applies
- For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it… Anything Certainly
- But your book is wrong, Mrs. Strunk, says George, when it tells you that Jim is the substitute I found for a real son, a… Anywhere
- Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity,… Alexander
- No one ever hates without a cause.... Cause
- You see, Kenny, there are some things you don't even know you know, until you're asked. Asked
- Someone has to ask you a question," George continues meaningly, "before you can answer it. But it's so seldom you find anyone who'll ask the… Answer
- I am alive, he says to himself, I am alive! And life energy surges hotly through him, and delight, and appetite. How good to be… Alive
- She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too. Addict
- The past is just something that's over. Funny
- George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength. Crazy
- What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If… All
- As they embrace, she kisses him full on the mouth. And suddenly sticks her tongue right in. She has done this before, often. It’s one… Drunken
- I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily… Absurd
- But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men… All
- For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the lights go out… Absent
- We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times. Funny
- The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why… Acquired