David Gascoyne Quotes

#1. This guy was making me tired. "Thanks for the afternoon's entertainment," I said. "I'll flush a copy of my bill down the toilet. You should be getting it in a couple of days.

John Swartzwelder

#2. Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime,
The image of Eternity,
the throne
Of the Invisible! even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.

George Gordon Byron

#3. David Gascoyne once told me that the only point of keeping a journal was to concentrate of the personal, the diurnal minutiae, and forget the great significant events in the world at large.

William Boyd

#4. The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Suman Jyoty Bhante

#5. One could certainly think of a man not in terms of a body but as a single vital current. And this would allow one to grasp the concept of existence as dynamic and on-going, rather than as static.

Yukio Mishima

#6. The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

R.C. Sproul

#7. What is so detestable about war is that it reduces the individual to complete insignificance.

David Gascoyne

#8. Isn't that what stories do, make fake things real, and real things fake?

Marie Rutkoski

#9. When you're building a character, or at least when I'm building a character, you start saying, 'How am I going to make people like him?'

John Sandford

#10. I wanted to find a nice quiet spot, go to sleep, and dream about kittens.

John Corwin