Quotes from Storm Jameson

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.

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?

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.

Very rare, the intelligence of the heart. The intelligence of the whimsical brain is less rare, less attaching, sometimes tedious.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Hope is a talent like any other.

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

There is only one world the world pressing against you this minute.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

each time that I have run away - and from a habit it quickly became an illness - I have betrayed someone. Myself, but not always only myself.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Happiness comes from the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.