Christopher Isherwood A Single Man Quotes

#1. Life's supposed to be a little hard. If your life is too easy, you're doing it wrong.

Seth King

#2. They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.

Bob Sanders

#3. I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived ... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

George Gershwin

#4. Kell swept Lila up into his arms, amazed at her lightness. She took up so much space in the world - in his world - it was hard to imagine her being so slight. In his mind, she was made of stone.

V.E Schwab

#5. That kind always has the public good as a motive to justify every abomination.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. And there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast. Five, four, three, two, one.

Nelson DeMille

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

Christopher Isherwood

#8. Undoubtedly, there are members of the former regime that are cooperating in some fashion and then there are extremists that are within Iraq that are cooperating with them.

John Abizaid

#9. Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Christopher Isherwood

#10. Love doesn't go away just because you realize you can't be with someone

Lexi Ryan

#11. 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