Best John Fowles Quotations
- The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this frozen present tense.… All
- There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves. All
- The battle was over. Our casualties were some thirteen thousand killed--thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes--because the human mind is more a universe… All
- Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very… Death
- The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love. Dead
- To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape. Apparently
- The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed." "I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."… Betray
- I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that’s the lot. There’s no mercy in things. There’s not even… Beyond
- I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship… All
- We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come. Ago
- I am infinitely strange to myself. Funny
- The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke. We're so weak physically, so helpless with things. Still,… Cruelty
- You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against… Day
- Wealth is a monster. It takes a month to learn to control it financially. And many years to learn to control it psychologically. Control
- I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort… All
- It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment… Acceptance
- If you forget everything else about me, please remember this. I walked down that street and I never looked back and I love you. I… Down
- I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased. Always Want
- Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth. Hunt
- The world began in hazard and will end in it. Began
- You're not me. You can't feel like I feel." "I can feel." "No you can't. You just choose not to feel or something and everything's… Bad
- They're beautiful. But sad.' Everything's sad if you make it so, I said. Beautiful
- That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good. Courage
- We all want things we can't have. Being a decent human being is accepting that. Acceptance
- The ordinary man is the curse of civilization. Civilization
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