Discipline Quote by Paul Bowles

“When I was young” … “Before I was twenty, I mean, I used to think that life was a thing that kept gaining impetus,…

— Paul Bowles

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the…

— Paul Bowles

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth,…

— Paul Bowles

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A…

— Paul Bowles

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

— Paul Bowles

“You know what?” he said with great earnestness. “I think we’re both afraid of the same thing. And for the same reason. We’ve never…

— Paul Bowles

“... how could any young man merely sit back and wait for divine justice to take its course? It was asking the impossible.”

— Paul Bowles

“There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws…

— Paul Bowles

Not all the ravages caused by our merciless age are tangible ones. The subtler forms of destruction, those involving only the human spirit, are…

— Paul Bowles

“What a wonderful thing to be an American!" he said impetuously. "Yes," said Dyar automatically, never having given much thought to what it would…

— Paul Bowles

“How peaceful it was, with the light evening breeze stirring the small leaves of the grapevine that clustered around the electric bulb, making the…

— Paul Bowles

“Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number…

— Paul Bowles