Nicholas Mosley > Quotes

“But had I not cut the cord? and now was I seeing what happens when there is no gravity. There is indeed nothing, nothing; you are just falling. My father had said once (or was it you?) that the only emotions worth having are ecstasy and despair. I thought - Well yes, but there is also a terror at this nothing.”
― Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters

“What if the need to have a hard time is built into human nature?”
― Nicholas Mosley

“The conceit of literary intellectuals is to imagine that other people don't have ideas so that they can assume a superior status by having their own...”
― Nicholas Mosley

“Love is in prospect or retrospect, the present is ecstasy.”
― Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object

“It is very difficult to love people who are good to us: it is easier to imagine we are loving people we can condescend to.”
― Nicholas Mosley

“The ritual was kissing her at various parts as if I were adorning her.”
― Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object

“I thought- This is why men build empires and go out into the desert; to get away from their loved ones and comfortable homes and to sit on floors with Arab chiefs and watch prostitutes.”
― Nicholas Mosley, Impossible Object

“Love is Noise.
Love is silence.
In love you’re human.
In love you possess magical powers.
In love you shelter yourself.
In love, you expose yourself.”
― Nicholas Mosley

“My father would say ‘I think the trouble is that they don’t have the ability to see just what it is they are doing.’
I would say ‘Is that difficult?’
My father would laugh and say ‘Yes, it’s difficult.”
― Nicholas Mosley, Hopeful Monsters