At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
From Brendan Behan
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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