J G Ballard Crash Quotes

#1. No man his the master of his fate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. If we really feared the crash, most of us would be unable to look at a car, let lone drive one.

J.G. Ballard

#3. 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

J.G. Ballard

#4. There is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade. This is that alma mater, at whose plentiful breast all mankind are nourished.

Henry Fielding

#5. Her demon had pursued and seduced him. She hoped he hadn't placed too much importance on that.

Paula Altenburg

#6. In their eyes I must have appeared like some kind of nightmarish totem, a domestic idiot suffering from the irreversible brain damage of a motorway accident and now put out each morning to view the scene of his own cerebral death.

J.G. Ballard

#7. Enthusiastic Entrepreneurial Evangelist

Robert Hollis

#8. I must fight my demons, they are illogical and irrational, yet they seem to beat me each time they strike.

Sophie Glynn

#9. After being bombarded endlessly by road-safety propaganda it was almost a relief to find myself in an actual accident.

J.G. Ballard