George Sanders Quotes

If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

An intimate core of my being recognizes that there is nothing in me that can go on: there is no spark; there is no infestation of vaporous miasma that has the capacity to continue, and there is nothing in me that wishes to continue. This moment is, for me, all that there is, and I'm willing to accept it. I'm a worm; I have no soul.

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.

We are all racing towards death. No matter how many great, intellectual conclusions we draw during our lives, we know they're all only man-made, like God. I begin to wonder where it all leads. What can you do, except do what you can do as best you know how.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

I honestly feel it could all end tomorrow. Not just the band thing - I mean life.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!

Life has become the ideology of its own absence.

The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

In a world that's ugly and a lie, it's hard to even want to try.

Although it is a gloomy view to suppose that life will die out, sometimes when I contemplate the things that people do with their lives I think it is almost a consolation

You don't even live once.

To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us who are protesting are protesting in part for our own sake to keep ourselves whole as human beings.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

And introduce an element of cynicism and darkness into it and just realize that we're all vulnerable. We are humans. There is a finite end to this life and we're all going to face it and a little silliness can help.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

To live is to die.

Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.

Nothing amazes me anymore.