Greg Baxter Quotes

#1. Saskia's bedroom is messy and cramped, but in an eccentric, smart way. Books are stacked all over the floor, but her bookshelf is empty, suggesting that she is the kind of person who reads seventy-five books at once.

Greg Baxter

#2. You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world with objects and ideas that will outlive them, and you suddenly glimpse the fires that burn below human despair.

Greg Baxter

#3. For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.

Greg Baxter

#4. You will never be fulfilled until you understand that you must live your life for others, not for yourself.

Greg Baxter

#5. Everything human beings can imagine has been thrown at injustice, and injustice just absorbs it, and enlarges.

Greg Baxter

#6. After a while you learn what you once considered monolithic is infinitely intricate.

Greg Baxter

#7. I am trying to live without a preoccupation for endpoints.

Greg Baxter

#8. You can never escape who you are, never truly anonymise yourself. Even if you never speak to anyone, people see you, and they get to know you for themselves.

Greg Baxter

#9. Nobody in rich countries wants to face responsibility for the lives of people in poor countries. They just want cheap groceries.

Greg Baxter