438 Quotes by John Fowles

It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

When you love me, it’s as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.

Laziness, I am afraid, was Charles's distinguishing trait.

I am one in a row of specimens. It’s when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I’m meant to be dead, pinned, always the same, always beautiful. He knows that part of my beauty is being alive, but it’s the dead me he wants. He wants me living-but-dead.

I was too green to know that all cynicism masks a failure to cope - an impotence, in short; and that to despise all effort is the greatest effort of all.

La maldad de todo el mundo está compuesta por millones de pequeñas gotas. Es una idiotez hablar de la falta de importancia de esas pequeñas gotas. Las pequeñas gotas y el océano son la misma cosa.

Sunt plină de singurătate byroniană, dar n‐am nici una dintre supapele de descărcare ale poetului: geniul şi adulterul.

Ama Tanrı duaları duymaz. O'nda duymak veya görmek veya acımak veya yardım etmek gibi insanlıktan eser yoktur.

Era inútil. Ella había matado todo romance entre los dos, y se había convertido en una mujer cualquiera para mi. Como las demás. Ya había dejado de respetarla; ya nada quedaba de respetar en ella.