All Sebastian Horsley Quotes
- Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. Expectations
- The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence. Boredom
- One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to… Age
- I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything. Happy
- I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters… Behave
- But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone Awful
- An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I… Artist
- It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of… Artificial
- My one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. American
- […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] Abortion
- You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have… Accept
- Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. Bestow
- I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator. All
- The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'. All
- Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. All
- The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. Ecstatic
- If I want to dislike women, I should be allowed to. As it happens, I love them. Women to me are privately worshipped and publicly… Allowed
- I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen. Citizen
- Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me. Blameless
- I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich. Early
- I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all… All
- I do a lot of things for effect, which is not to say I am superficial, but that I know how to put ideas across. Across
- I think you are born, and I think you die. I have a pragmatic nature, but I yearn to believe. Believe
- My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway. Beginning
- My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and… Ascertain