Chris March Quotes

Unseasonal clothing actually only stands out when it's visibly uncomfortable.

Back in the Eighties, I'd buy the biggest Benetton jumper I could find and would wear it long-sleeved, hanging off my shoulders, with a varsity jacket and a baseball cap on back to front with a quiff. I was the smallest boy in my class, and I looked like a reject from New Kids On The Block. Terrible.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

Haute Couture should be fun, foolish and almost unwearable.

If you really want to be lonely, get married.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time.

You must hold on to the sort of finger-painting aspect of music. That's something I learned, particularly from listening to Neil Young. Tom Waits is another one, because Tom's music is incredibly sophisticated and beautifully arranged, but he's using a toolbox that's unlike anybody else's.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.

My unhappiness protects me from life.

There is only one inborn erroneous notion ... that we exist in order to be happy ... So long as we persist in this inborn error ... the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence ... hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of ... disappointment.

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end. The minor longs to be at age, then to be a man of business, then to make up an estate, then to arrive at honors, then to retire.

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

I'm really interested in bands that sound nothing like anything I do or can do. That's what interests me.

Even happy situations can easily start to feel miserable. So, I think that people who consider themselves sophisticated or who are in fact sophisticated have come to distrust stories that are uplifting or simply stories in which the characters get what they want in the end. Because in life, what you want is never the end.

This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.

Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay.

And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

If we do not like our work, and do not try to get happiness out of it, we are a menace to our profession as well as to ourselves.

The important thing was that we were being polite and not saying all the things that were making us unhappy, which was the only way we knew how to love each other.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.