Corey Stoll Quotes

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled.

The death of a 20-year-old woman is intuitively worse than that of a 2-month-old girl, even though the baby has had less life. The 20-year-old has a much more developed personality than the infant, and has drawn upon the investment of others to begin as-yet-unfulfilled projects.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

I was born in 1954. My parents were brought up in the war years, and life was hard.

It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

Childhood is a promise that is never kept.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

Our present time is indeed a criticizing and critical time, hovering between the wish, and the inability to believe. Our complaints are like arrows shot up into the air at no target: and with no purpose they only fall back upon our own heads and destroy ourselves.

For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.

I've dated people who I thought were going to be a big deal in my life, and I've also spent long periods by myself.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

One is always enthralled, I think, when a young writer you're just beginning to read and comprehend dies.

Mum was an amazing parent and my best pal. The tragedy of it, really, was that she died from breast cancer just as I was becoming a man, aged 17, and we were just starting to speak as adults. She was snatched away, and it felt cruel. She made me laugh.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

We were heroes in 1917, but we’re bums now.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.