Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts in company, I am sober again.
Mason Cooley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Company
Sober
Drunk
Solitude
Thoughts
Alone
More quotes by Mason Cooley
Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.
Mason Cooley
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley
Wit puts politicians at risk.
Mason Cooley
My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.
Mason Cooley
The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.
Mason Cooley
Promiscuity: optimism, free enterprise, mobility--the American Dream.
Mason Cooley
People invent gods to explain their suffering.
Mason Cooley
Paradox implies that stating a contradiction disposes of it.
Mason Cooley
Sexual attraction pairs people, but does not match them.
Mason Cooley
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Mason Cooley
When you can't figure out what to do, it's time for a nap.
Mason Cooley
Envy grieves. Jealousy rages.
Mason Cooley
Never lie in writing.
Mason Cooley
As I review my life, I feel I must have missed the point, either then or now.
Mason Cooley
In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.
Mason Cooley
Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.
Mason Cooley
A quick smile is more seductive than a slinky dress.
Mason Cooley
A neurotic can neither enjoy his illusions nor give them up.
Mason Cooley
As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.
Mason Cooley
In the labyrinth of a difficult text, we find unmarked forks in the path, detours, blind alleys, loops that deliver us back to our point of entry, and finally the monster who whispers an unintelligible truth in our ears.
Mason Cooley
