Adagios Quotes

#1. I think, if you're going to kill a man, do it. Don't write him a letter about it. Don't bluster and threaten and put him on his guard.

Hilary Mantel

#2. The keys are, or were, the training methods used by the ancient mystery schools. We've got hints and tips, we've got little bits on the papyri, but we don't have, in our hands, a complete curriculum of the ways in which they induced altered states of consciousness and the projection of the mind.

Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

#3. Paula Milne was really the first thing that drew me to 'The Politician's Husband.'

David Tennant

#4. Even in the midst of compassion we feel within I know not what tart sweet titillation of malicious pleasure in seeing others suffer; children have the same feeling.

Michel De Montaigne

#5. By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.

Steven Galloway

#6. The end
When I die bang on cans
Romp around in leaps and bounds
Let whips crack in the air
Call in clowns and acrobats!
I want my coffin to go on a donkey
Decked out in Andalusian style
You can't refuse anything to a dead man
And I want, by all means, go on a donkey

Mario De Sa-Carneiro

#7. Sometimes I don't feel as if I'm a person at all. I'm just a collection of other people's ideas.

David Bowie

#8. Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room.

Kelsey Sutton