David Mitchell Quotes

Lillian shut her eyes briefly, as if she hoped when she opened them she would behold a world in which people never said ridiculous things.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; but now I know it.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I detest jokes - when somebody tells me one, I feel my IQ dropping; the brain cells start to disappear. But something is funny when the person delivering the line doesn't know it's funny or doesn't treat it as a joke. Maybe it comes from a place of truth, or it's a sort of rage against society.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

Much of the best humor is found in the frequently tragic reality of human experience.

Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles.

He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.

Sex is the biggest nothing of all time.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.

If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

I started a short story but it was so dreary that even my pen threw up.

Puritans will never believe it, but life is full of disagreeable things that aren't even good for you.

There is no such thing in life as no pain and no disappointment.

Fredrika Bimm, what do you think you're doing?" "Freaking out. Losing my mind. Thinking about snapping your husband's spine. Squashing the urge to vomit. Wishing I had died at childbirth." "Oh, you say that when you don't get a prize in your Lucky Charms.

I walked away to get wisdom, but in the end I just walked home.

Viewed as a drama, the war is somewhat disappointing.

Road, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.

I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.

Life is a tragedy filled with suffering and despair and yet some people do manage to avoid jury duty.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.