I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult. — Quentin S. Crisp Adults Copy Share Image
People didn't talk about paedophiles in the seventies, I don't think. — Quentin S. Crisp Paedophiles Copy Share Image
[My muse] feels nostalgic for Japan, and, perhaps strangely, for the pioneer days of America. — Quentin S. Crisp America Copy Share Image
I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Comfort Copy Share Image
To me the seventies represent normality, and, of course, it is a normality that is now anachronistic. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I associate my childhood with two things, mainly: the North Devon countryside and a sense of connection to another world. — Quentin S. Crisp Another world Copy Share Image
“Life may be scary But it’s only temporary. And this is perhaps the most comforting conclusion to be reached if one discounts… — Quentin S. Crisp Comfort Copy Share Image
In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It's interesting, the sense of pastoral utopia that exists in so much fantasy - in [Edward ] Dunsany, [John R.R.] Tolkien and… — Quentin S. Crisp Fantasy Copy Share Image
I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract… — Quentin S. Crisp Abstract Copy Share Image
There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems… — Quentin S. Crisp Adversity Copy Share Image
This is part of the fundamental character of Buddhism that I find problematic - that it is not interested in anything. Hence… — Quentin S. Crisp Art Copy Share Image
If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel a little as if the Buddhism is creeping back, but I mention all this simply in order to illustrate that… — Quentin S. Crisp Buddhism Copy Share Image
I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was… — Quentin S. Crisp Body Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world. — Quentin S. Crisp Buddhism Copy Share Image
I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism… — Quentin S. Crisp Buddhism Copy Share Image
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I feel that Nagai Kafu was a writer who cold stitch together apparently meaningless moments like these into a lyrical whole, and… — Quentin S. Crisp Ability Copy Share Image
People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine. — Quentin S. Crisp Artist Copy Share Image
“To find something truly alive these days is in itself almost shocking—as shocking as a living doll.” — Quentin S. Crisp Life Copy Share Image
In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find… — Quentin S. Crisp America Copy Share Image
Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp First world war Copy Share Image
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine. — Quentin S. Crisp Castration Copy Share Image
It would be hard to say that exactly, but antinatalism is a reality in my life, not just an interesting idea. I… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I suppose I could say that to be interested in innocence already suggests a remove from innocence, perhaps a longing for something… — Quentin S. Crisp Innocence Copy Share Image
Zen is influenced by Daoism, which is not so much a nature-religion in the animistic sense as a nature-philosophy in a cosmic… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
We're all more or less interested in the 'swinging sixties', of course, but that's not what I mean. I'm interested in the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of… — Quentin S. Crisp Affinity Copy Share Image
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![“I think [imagination] very austere element of Buddhism is also linked with a strong antinatalist strain in the philosophy. The Buddha was enlightened when he destroyed the house of body and soul into which he would otherwise have been forever reborn. This is clearly antinatalism.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/quentin-s-crisp-4149_body_i-think-imagination-very-austere-element_1631590.jpg)
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![“The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/958/quentin-s-crisp-4149_america_the-cultural-products-of-america-from-th_944420.jpg)
![“Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/53d/quentin-s-crisp-4149_edges_lots-of-things-were-there-in-the-seventi_1995354.jpg)
![“Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since, that turned itself to past without a word".” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33a/quentin-s-crisp-4149_first-world-war_speaking-of-philip-larkin-in-his-poem-ab_1423763.jpg)
![“If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.” quote by Quentin S. Crisp](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8c5/quentin-s-crisp-4149_enough_if-we-do-want-to-do-that-colonise-space_40648.jpg)
