Mose Allison Quotes

What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.

I want you to take away the hope because that's the thing that's killing me.

Censure acquits the raven, but pursues the dove.

Ignorance, filth, and poverty are the missionaries of crime.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

You know, if my life was a horse, I’d shoot it. (Susan)

There is no greater mistake in the world than the looking upon every sort of nonsense as want of sense.

Love is not knowing what you're talking about.

Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy--even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

Because to tell you the truth, most of the time dying seems pretty much like my only means of escape

We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing.

There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.

I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy...that makes you unkind.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

We love justice greatly, and just men but little.

People are just dumb. They misunderstand.

We only know how to lose and be lost.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.