106 Quotes by Storm Jameson

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

all writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth ...

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.