Quotes from book

Revolutionary Road

“It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.”

“if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”

“People did change, and a change could be a bloom as well as a withering…”

“Do you know what the definition of insane is? Yes. It’s the inability to relate to another human being. It’s the inability to love.”

“if you don’t try at anything, you can’t fail… it takes back bone to lead the life you want”

“No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.”

“You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.”

“She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?”

“In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.”

“He had won but he didn't feel like a winner.”

“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”

“He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the power to forgive.”

“Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.”