33 Quotes About Henry-and-cato

Oh how stupid I am, he said to himself, using words which he had used ever so often since he was a child. At that moment it seemed to him that his life had consisted of one blunder after another, and now aged thirty-one he was well on into the stupidest of all.

He thought about the future and it was a vibrating darkness. He felt fear.

But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem.

I lead a worthless life, he thought, I live in unreality and untruth. If only there could be total change, regeneration, escape. If only I could run and run and get back to the people, back to where real wholesome, ordinary life is being lived. I have given myself a mean role and cannot now stop enacting it. Oh if only I could get out! But even as he thought these familiar thoughts he knew: unreality is my reality, untruth is my truth, I am too old now and I have no other way.

You don't know what it's like to be me, you don't know what it's like to be all tattered and destroyed inside.

I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs.