John Fowles Quotes

After all, there is nothing but failure.

I still see the world as a place of bitter irony and black humour, failed hopes, dashed plans. I hope to make my work sparer, to outgrow my desire to show off.

You should despair and run away.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

Left wing, right wing, I am wingless and tired of trying to fly. Here comes the ground.

There was no indication of panic. The broken files marched back in steady step. The effort was nobly made and failed from the blows that could not be fended.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Accept loss forever.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

I already gave my best.

No one is more miserable than the person who wills everything and can do nothing.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

We must break the cycle of cynicism that has hold of many of our youth.

My God, it is all over.

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.

I see the bad in everything I do.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my anger.

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

Normally, a loss, it's hard to swallow, but you get over it sooner or later.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.