Alex Garland Quotes

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Mixed feelings, like mixed drinks, are a confusion to the soul.

If I could be more vague I'd write more about people in my life, but I hate hurting feelings or making people feel uncomfortable. I've done that before. Unless they're sad songs. Those get finished fast, but the mean ones often end up at the back of the bottom drawer and it's probably for the best.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

My love affair with painting is bittersweet.

She hugged me and I could feel the heat rise in my face, either from shame or love, like there was a difference.

She was very near hating him now; yet the sound of his voice, the way the light fell on his thin, dark hair, the way he sat and moved and wore his clothes—she was conscious that even these trivial things were inwoven with her deepest life.

We don't stop loving people just because we hate them, but we don't stop hating them either.

Music has been a burden and a joy for as long as I can remember.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

I felt calm when I was called first runner-up because I felt it was fate. But when they announced that I was Miss Universe, I had mixed emotions. I was happy because I really wanted to win but felt sad for Miss Colombia.

I had lost my grandfather just a month-and-a-half before I made my debut. I was suddenly scoring runs and getting into the fray. It was a very trying period for me. I was happy as well as sad.

I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I guess people just assume I'm some troubled guy who's constantly sad.

I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

I've been the saddest while I've been the most successful, strangely.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

People ask me when I decided to become a playwright, and I tell them I decide to do it every day. Most days it's very hard because I'm frightened - not frightened of writing a bad play, although that happens often with me. I'm frightened of encountering the wilderness of my own spirit, which is always , no matter how many plays I write, a new and uncharted place. Every day when I sit down to write, I can't remember how it's done.

So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

Art never comes from happiness.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.