A Single Man Isherwood Quotes

#1. How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#2. Every fulfilled wish we wrest from the world is really like alms that keep the beggar alive today so that he can starve again tomorrow.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#3. I have to get out of this room as soon as possible, or my own thoughts will wage war against me.

Tahereh Mafi

#4. My mind is my weapon.

George R R Martin

#5. Feel the power of the Dark Side," he murmured.
"Always," Parker said.

Greg Cox

#6. The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones.

Karl Marx

#7. Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped.

Christopher Isherwood

#8. Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Christopher Isherwood

#9. I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late?

Christopher Isherwood