141 Quotes About The-black-prince

I felt at times, it is hard to describe this, almost mad with guilt, with a sort of general guilt about my whole life.

However one must ask not just, is it amusing, is it exciting, but is it a work of art?

The virtues have secret names: they are, so difficult of access, secret things. Everything that is worthy is secret.

There are people who occasion in one, as it seems automatically, obsessive egoistic anxiety and preoccupying resentment. When confronted with such people one should if possible run: or else deaden the mind to them. (Or behave in some 'saintly' manner not here relevant.)

I crave for love, everybody does . . . and I've never had a bloody crumb of it—and I've given so much love to people—I can really love people, I can, I let them walk over me—but nobody's ever loved me.

You've obviously never been in love.""I have actually. And awfully. And—always—without hope—I've never had my love reciprocated ever.

Perhaps that was the only time which we should ever, ever have together. Perhaps it was something which would never, never, never come again.

All this had happened before, perhaps a million times, and because of this was doomed. There was no ordinary future any more, only this ecstatic tormented terrified present. The future had passed through the present like a sword. We were already, even eye to eye and lip to lip, deep in the horrors to come.

One's capacity to forget absolutely is immense.