148 Quotes by Michel Faber

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

There is so little in the New Testament about sexual love, and most of it consists of Paul heaving a deep sigh and tolerating it like a weakness.

People and their dwellings were such a thin dust on the surface of the globe, like invisible specks of bacteria on an orange, and the feeble lights of kebab shops and supermarkets failed utterly to register on the infinities of space above.

Because human beings suffer so much more than ducks.”“You might not think so if you were a duck.

В глазах Господа все мужчины и женщины нагие. Одежда — фиговый листок, не более. А тела под одеждой — лишь еще одна прослойка, одеяние из плоти под непрактичной оболочкой тонкой кожи разнообразных оттенков розового, желтого и коричневого. И только души реальны. С этой точки зрения просто невозможны такие вещи, как социальная напряженность, стыд или смущение. Все, что тебе нужно, — это приветствовать душу ближнего своего.

You one of those decaffeinated Christians, padre? The diabetic wafer? Doctrine-free, guilt-reduced, low in Last judgement, 100% less Second Coming, no added Armageddon? Might contain small traces of crucified Jew?

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.