Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth. Suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
—Julie Burchill, 1986
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A regime which combines perpetual surveillance with total indulgence is hardly conducive to healthy development.
—P.D. James, 1992Your body is the church where nature asks to be reverenced.
—Marquis de Sade, 1797In the country gossip is a pastime; in the city it is a warfare.
—W.M.L. Jay, 1870I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
—Thomas Hobbes, 1679The future, like everything else, is no longer quite what it used to be.
—Paul Valéry, 1931The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
—Oscar Wilde, 1891Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1860Do you suppose that will change the sense of the morals, the fact that we can’t use morals as a means of judging the city because we couldn’t stand it? And that we’re changing our whole moral system to suit the fact that we’re living in a ridiculous way?
—Philip Johnson, 1965God seems to have left the receiver off the hook, and time is running out.
—Arthur Koestler, 1967Let us make our own mistakes, but let us take comfort in the knowledge that they are our own mistakes.
—Tom Mboya, 1958A change in the weather is sufficient to create the world and oneself anew.
—Marcel Proust, c. 1920Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732