176 Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

There is an arch supported by four vast columns. Etched over hundreds and hundreds of yards of stone, furlongs of stone, there are names: "Who are these, these? The men who died in this battle?""No. The lost, the ones they did not find. The others are in the cemeteries.""These are just the ... the unfound." When she could speak again. From the whole war?"The man shook his head. "Just these fields."Elizabeth sat on the steps. "No one told me. My God no one told me,

Grief is a peculiar emotion.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.

[“What is the most real thing you can think of?”]Jacques thought for a long time before answering; he tried to weigh up what was most vital and enduring in all that he had known. Eventually, no longer smiling, he said, ‘Memory’.

A time before Flanders and Auschwitz had shown that, given the means of killing and the opportunity to use them, the species, far from being a pinnacle in creation, was actually lower on the scale than all others in its genus or family.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still.