Best Quotes

Tell the truth, or someone will tell it for you.

You love me. Real or not real?”I tell him, “Real.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters – not to talk in armies and nations and numbers – but to track it home.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

It’s bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.