Mihail Sebastian Quotes

#1. Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

Sherwood Smith

#2. What an odd thing a stranger is. A stranger sleeping next to you. I listen to his breathing as if it were his entire life, with its hidden processes, the pulsing of the blood in the tissues, with thousands of tiny hidden decays and combustions, which together create and maintain him.

Mihail Sebastian

#3. The abundance of beards in periods of social unrest, times of revolt or upheaval, should be noted. It's the handiest way people have of making themselves mysterious.

Mihail Sebastian

#4. Why is it you always meet people when you look your worst?

Marilyn Monroe

#5. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.

Mihail Sebastian

#6. I embraced her and she did not object at all. She let herself be kissed and kissed back, but coolly, without conviction, absently, as if she were smoking a cigarette.

Mihail Sebastian

#7. I am not so blind that I can't see darkness.

Terry Pratchett

#8. A stranger sleeps next to me, like a stone beside another stone.

Mihail Sebastian

#9. I'm finding myself very comfortable talking to medical audiences, and proving to them that underlying the material fields of the universe are force fields.

Deepak Chopra

#10. Doesn't being over-familiar put you at a disadvantage? A more formal way of speaking doesn't just mean you're being polite, it's also a way of protecting yourself.

Mihail Sebastian

#11. So it isn't I who am master of my life, I am just one of the threads to be woven into life's calico! Well then, even if I cannot spin, I can at least cut the thread in two.

Soren Kierkegaard

#12. Why is Mediocrity now good enough?
When did crap become the new black?

Igor Goldkind

#13. Do what you can because there are many things that need doing.

Candy Darling

#14. Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

Josh Linkner

#15. Pessimism is the product of a hostile social state. Its answer is the substitution of a friendly social state. If this can be done it will disappear.

Lester Frank Ward

#16. It's just this emptiness between us, the stupid idea I could kiss it away,

Courtney Summers

#17. You will face yourself again in a moment of terror and will learn once again that old lesson you keep forgetting: that you can escape from anywhere, but you cannot flee your own self.

Mihail Sebastian

#18. I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

Portia De Rossi

#19. Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

Will Self

#20. I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

Mihail Sebastian

#21. What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

Maxwell Perkins

#22. Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#23. Sometimes symbolism is too obvious.

Mihail Sebastian