Huysmans A Rebours Quotes & Sayings

This is your grave."
"Grave? You've got to be kidding. I'm still alive."
"Burying dead people isn't as much fun," Saeki said, feeling this was extremely obvious. — Otsuichi

You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in. — Viggo Mortensen

I think he is losing heart in his attempts to woo her. In that bright-yellow waistcoat, the bottom button always punctiliously undone and the pointed flaps open over his neat little paunch, he is as intent and circumspect as one of those outlandishly plumed male birds, peacock or cock peasant, who gorgeously stalk up and down at a distance, desperate of eye but pretending indifference, while the drab hen unconcernedly pecks in the gravel for grubs. — John Banville

I know this kind of talk makes you freak out, but I'm gonna say it anyway," Dylan said, laughing softly. "I fuckin' love you, man."
"Jesus Christ," Lucien muttered,
... These days, their bond ran so much deeper; as close as brothers, the best of friends.
He met Dylan's eye in a moment of silent acknowledgement, then shuddered despite the warmth of the evening. "And now I feel like we just had sex. — Kitty French

Like a tide-race, the waves of human mediocrity are rising to the heavens and will engulf this refuge, for I am opening the flood-gates myself, against my will. Ah! but my courage fails me and my heart is sick within me!
Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the unbeliever who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts out to sea alone, in the night, beneath a firmament no longer lit by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope!
(A Rebours, final words) — Joris-Karl Huysmans

Let one state in the U.S. be free of government and overnight you would have an economic powerhouse. — James Cook

He didn't just love Lila, he was in love with her. And he wanted to marry her not to save her, but to save himself. — Jeannie Moon

You cannot insult a wise man with wisdom. — Colin Tegerdine

When people die, our dreams of what they could be die with them. Even if ours is the hand that ends them. — Cassandra Clare

Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio. — Dwight Yoakam

Cheerios
One bright morning in a restaurant in Chicago
as I waited for my eggs and toast,
I opened the Tribune only to discover
that I was the same age as Cheerios.
Indeed, I was a few months older than Cheerios
for today, the newspaper announced,
was the seventieth birthday of Cheerios
whereas mine had occurred earlier in the year.
Already I could hear them whispering
behind my stooped and threadbare back,
Why that dude's older than Cheerios
the way they used to say
Why that's as old as the hills,
only the hills are much older than Cheerios
or any American breakfast cereal,
and more noble and enduring are the hills,
I surmised as a bar of sunlight illuminated my orange juice. — Billy Collins

In Sweden, everyone is assumed to have similar resources, so it seems inappropriate to pay for someone else. — Christina Johansson Robinowitz