Robert Frobisher Quotes

Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

Whoever opined “Money can’t buy you happiness” obviously had far too much of the stuff.

All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities.

Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. . . What’s selfish is to demand another to endure an intolerable existence, just to spare families, friends, and enemies a bit of soul-searching.

Now I’m a spent firework; but at least I’ve been a firework.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

All boundaries are conventions, national ones too. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so.

We looked at each other for the last time; nothing is as eloquent as nothing.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.

People pontificate, “Suicide is selfishness.” Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this specious line for varying reason: to evade fingers of blame, to impress one’s audience with one’s mental fiber, to vent anger, or just because one lacks the necessary suffering to sympathize.