Christopher Isherwood A Single Man Quotes & Sayings

The supermarket is still open; it won't close till midnight. It is brilliantly bright. Its brightness offers sanctuary from loneliness and the dark. You could spend hours of your life here, in a state of suspended insecurity, meditating on the multiplicity of things to eat. Oh dear, there is so much! So many brands in shiny boxes, all of them promising you good appetite. Every article on the shelves cries out to you, take me, take me; and the mere competition of their appeals can make you imagine yourself wanted, even loved. But beware - when you get back to your empty room, you'll find that the false flattering elf of the advertisement has eluded you; what remains is only cardboard, cellophane and food. And you have lost the heart to be hungry. — Christopher Isherwood

Because I am an Englishman I spent most of my life in a state of embarrassment. — Colin Firth

I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late? — Christopher Isherwood

A man polished to the nail.
[Lat., Ad unguem factus home.] — Horace

Even when they are geniuses in spite of it, their masterpieces are invariably warped. — Christopher Isherwood

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

A dream my girlfriend and I have is to move to New York for a year or two because we just love the city. I would take some acting classes. — Daniel Bruhl

There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not an illustrated children's book fantasy world. — Joe Rohde

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty. — Christopher Isherwood

Can you maybe put some clothes on?"
"No. Next question?"
"It would help if you put something on."
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"Well, come on then. Let's get the talking over and done with, so we can move on to the fun part. You know, the part where my cock gets to meet yours. — Ella Frank