176 Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach – I’m not sure I’d grasped that exactly, but I’d got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.

I don’t think you ever understand your life – not till it’s finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.

One day, when you are grown up, you suddenly become aware that something has gone.

Some crime against nature is about to be committed. I feel it in my veins. These men and boys are grocers and clerks, gardeners and fathers – fathers of small children. A country cannot bear to lose them.

I don’t find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

Now I see my children and I know that they are figures in a lantern show, that their sense of permanence is an illusion, because all around us time is unstoppable.

I am driven by a greater force than I can resist. I believe that force has its own reason and its own morality even if they may never be clear to me while I am alive.

We’re deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can’t hear it.