John Fowles Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

  John Fowles

  Life, Men, Perfectly Normal

• It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.

  John Fowles

  Wise, Past, Animal

  1965 The Magus, ch.24.

• Do you know that every great thing in the history of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?

  John Fowles

  Beautiful, Art, Passion

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

• Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

  John Fowles

  Thinking, Feelings, Wonderful

  John Fowles (1968). “The Magus”, Pan

• It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

  John Fowles

  Acceptance, Self, Choices

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

• We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.

  John Fowles

  Wise, Animal, Past

  1965 The Magus, ch.24.

• That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.

  John Fowles

  Sex, Real, War

  1965 The Magus, ch.52.

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