1,299 Quotes by Aldous Huxley

Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet’s irreplaceable capital.

He would think of Heaven and London and Our Lady of Acoma and the rows and rows of babies in clean bottles and Jesus flying up and Linda flying up and the great Director of World hatcheries and Awonawilona.

But a priest’s life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed – a compass, not a weathercock.

The trouble with fiction,” said John Rivers, “is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Every man’s memory is his private literature.

We don’t want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

In spite of their sadness – because of it, even; for their sadness was the symptom of their love for one another – the three young men were happy.

If you’re always scared of dying,” Obispo had said, “you’ll surely die. Fear’s a poison; and not such a slow poison either.

I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.