The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Quotes

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.”

“It was his subconscious which told him this---that infuriating part of a person’s brain which never responds to interrogation, merely gives little meaningful nudges and then sits humming quietly to itself, saying nothing.”

“Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid as well. I think that’s something you might have to consider.”

“There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

“I don’t go to mythical places with strange men.”

“Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command.”

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

“People who need to bully you are the easiest to push around.”

“Words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.”

“A life that is burdened with expectations is a heavy life. Its fruit is sorrow and disappointment.”