477 Quotes by Ashleigh Brilliant

Why is there still so much pain and suffering being produced when there's so little demand for it?

In one sense, I have always felt glad to have had the war [World War II] in my childhood, because, as a result, nothing that has happened in the world since then has ever seemed quite so bad. On the other hand, I never entirely got over my feeling of being cheated when the promised era of peace in a wonderful "post-war world" failed to materialize. I could not understand how, after all that, people could ever even think of fighting again. And I still can't.

Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.

Your reasoning is excellent, it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong.

I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

What happened to you could have been worse - it could have happened to me.

The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

There are some things children cannot know, because once they learn them they are no longer children.

Do you believe in apathy at first sight?