💬 Quotes

"It is only by frequenting people who have far more leisure than ourselves that we learn how the days are made to yield a proper description of mental comfort."

"Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, not this outer life of telegrams and anger."

"Most of us are not unamiable. But we cannot interpret silence properly. We tend to misunderstand the reserved, to think them either callous or perplexed, and to give up trying to know them."

"To be willing to connect is to accept the whole scheme of being, and to enter into the mystery of things."

"London is only a smell, people say: indeed, it is all smells. It is also a square miles and miles of red brick, well or ill designed, and the port of the world and the citadel of capitalism."

"The veryurses of the rich are generally interesting only to the rich."

"It was always the lovely moment before it was time to begin—the moment when nothing had yet been irrevocably done, when the future was still a choice of paths."

"I suppose all life is a process of breaking down."

"Beauty is only something to be-to be-oh, to be admired, to be envied."

"There is no comfort in any of them. The older one grows, the more one realizes that convention is necessary—if only to stave off the ultimate boredom."

"They were neither happy nor unhappy; they were merely existing in a sort of permanent twilight of the soul."

"Seeing is not believing. It is only seeing."

"If you believe in things because you can see them, you are of little worth as a man or a woman."

"Old people are nearly always right, even when they're wrong."

"It is a great thing when you are willing to let go your hold of a thing that you love, just because it is better for it that you should."

"Creatures that are in a state of transition are often ugly, and sometimes very hurtful."

"A man's true worth is the amount of truth he will suffer for, and the amount of service he will do without reward."

"Man creates a God in his own image, and then trembles before the monster of his own imagination."

"We wander through life with a bandage over our eyes, firmly convinced that we see everything clearly."

"It is not death that terrifies us, but the desolate void that precedes it—the realization of our utter insignificance."