Miss Abbott, don’t worry over me. Some people are born not to do things. I’m one of them.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.
Life’ wrote a friend of mine, ‘is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won’t do harm – yes, choose a place where you won’t do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now… and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
Let us think of people as starting life with an experience they forget and ending it with one which they anticipate but cannot understand.
Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England’s.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.