82 Quotes by Flann O'Brien

I am completely half afraid to think.

still loved but deprived of grace

Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding this eulogy, I soon found that the mass of plain porter bears an unsatisfactory relation to its toxic content and I subsequently became addicted to brown stout in bottle, a drink which still remains the one that I prefer the most despite the painful and blinding fits of vomiting which a plurality of bottles has often induced in me.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.