Sebastian Horsley > Quotes

“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“But then, people always loathe those they have wronged.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought. The most moving moments of our lives find us without words. What can be explained with words is only the waves, the foam on the surface, but music has its place underneath the waves, in the silent depth of the unspeakable”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography – A Disarming Memoir in the Tradition of Byron and Wilde

“Clearly everyone in my life who should have been vertical was horizontal.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld

“There comes a time in every person's life where they realize that they adore me. Yours has come.”
― Sebastian Horsely

“The air used to be clean and the sex used to be dirty. Now it is the other way around. Soho [London] has lost its heart.”
― Sebastian Horsley