82 Quotes by Flann O'Brien

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

Who had uttered these words? They had not frightened me. They were clearly audible to me yet I knew the did not ring out across the air like the chilling cough of the old man in the chair,They came from deep inside me, from my soul. Never before had I believed or suspected that I had a soul but just then I knew I had.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Dermot Trellis'in akli melekeleri geldiğinde aralıklarla teker teker geldiler, öyle hep birden değil. Hepsi kendi ıstıraplarıyla geldiler ve sanki her an kalkıp gideceklermiş gibi aklın sınırında endişeyle durdular.

When I reached the barrack I paid no attention to anything or anybody but went straight to a bed and lay on it and fell into a full and simple sleep. Compared with this sleep, death is a restive thing, peace is a clamour and darkness a burst of light.

Çocuklar içinde büyüdükleri kotu çevrenin etkisiyle kirleniyor ve p*zevenklere, suçlulara ve gaddar insanlara dönüşüyorlardı. -kötülük çok zayıf bir kelime değil mi yahu!Kötülük, ona göre, bilinen bütün illetlerin en bulaşıcı olanıydı. Bir hırsızı dürüst insanların arasına koy, er ya da geç adamcağızın saatini yürütüverirler.

You're a terrible man for the blankets, said Kerrigan.I'm not ashamed to admit that I love my bed, said Byrne. She was my first friend...She will house me in my last hour and faithfully hold my cold body when I am dead. She will look bereaved when I am gone.

Why be a dumb dud? Do your friends shun you? Do people cross the street when they see you approaching? Do they run up the steps of strange houses, pretend they live there and force their way into the hall while you are passing by? If this is the sort of person you are, you must avail yourself today of this new service. Otherwise, you might as well be dead.

Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.