John Fowles: Trending quotes (page 3)

“There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.”

“We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.”

“There is no plan. All is hazard. And the only thing that will preserve us is ourselves.”

“Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.”

“The moon hung over the planet Earth, a dead thing over a dying thing.”

“It is me. I am his madness. For years he's been looking for something to put his madness into. And he found me.”

“There are many reasons why novelists write but they all have one thing in common a need to create an alternative world.”

“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 with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.”

“They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.”

“I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.”

“I mean I never feel I feel what I ought to feel.”

“The world began in hazard and will end in it.”

“The profoundest distances are never geographical.”

“Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?”

“There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.”

“The best wines take the longest to mature.”

“… all cynicism masks a failure to cope.”

“The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty.

As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. Therebe a God and heknow anything about us.”

“In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.”