Colin Wilson Quotes

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

But I don't think I was ever destined to be a big star.

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.

It is difficult to understand why I am so famous. I never thought I wanted to be an actress. I never thought about it. I think it is my destiny to be in this business.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

Cara, ever since you told me at the age of four that you wanted to be Claudia Schiffer, while you were naked in the bath with a sponge on your head, I knew you were destined for great things.

I always felt I was going to be famous.

I always knew I would be a star someday. I didn't know when. I didn't know how it would look. I just had a feeling.

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

I want to run for eternal glory and track is great, but it's not what life is all about.

Where can you find purpose? Like success and happiness, our purpose exists in the present, and we constantly strive toward the future to maintain it. What it is for which we strive is up to each of us. The important thing is that we strive toward something.

Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.

I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.

My aim is to go down in history as one of the best.

A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.

The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend oblivion. The infinite future makes that kind of mattering impossible.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.

Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.

Such joy ambition finds.