Anthony Burgess Quotes

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die

It's easier to be skeptical because it's easier to understand that every human lives in their own world.

The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.

What has history to do with me? Mine is the first and only world! I want to report how I find the world. What others have told me about the world is a very small and incidental part of my experience. I have to judge the world, to measure things.

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.

For life in the present there is no death. Death is not an event in life. It is not a fact in the world.

When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.

It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

I am my world.

In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

As always the thought of his own death calmed him as much as that of others disturbed him: was it perhaps because, when all was said and done, his own death would in the first place mean that of the whole world?

This world is nothing. An illusion. Death is the release.

The man who kills a man kills a man. The man who kills himself kills all men. As far as he is concerned, he wipes out the world.

He who has lived a day has lived an age.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

Death left its old tragic heaven and became the lyrical core of man: his invisible truth, his visible secret.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

We are all mortals, and each is for himself.

Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously