Simon Gray Quotes & Sayings

We've forgotten that chasing happiness or peace only causes it to seem further away. It's a little like wild kittens. You can chase them all day long and not catch them. But, if you sit quietly and allow them to come to you, you will tame them in time. — Simon Gray

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. — Simon Gray

JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing.
MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons.
JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us. — Simon Gray

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever. — Simon Gray

Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it. — Simon Gray

In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it. — Simon Gray

Your success in the job market has nothing to do with the job market itself - instead it has everything to do with you. — Simon Gray