You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.
From Sebastian Horsley
My theory is that the way you cope with the depths will ascertain the heights that you reach - they are intimately connected - and if you have a lust for life, you are also going to have a lust for death.
I live my life like an open book, even though it's open on the wrong page.
I keep the shutters closed because I like to work in a hermetic environment. I like mirrors. When you look out of the window, all you see is ugliness, but when you look in the mirror all you see is beauty.
I regret everything. But so what? At least I have cause.
I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.
I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet.
Being a dandy is a condition rather than a profession. It is a defense against suffering and a celebration of life.
My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.
The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic.
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