Quote

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts in company, I am sober again.

Mason Cooley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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

Image
The Simple Life is not a simple life.
Mason Cooley
Image
The writer considers sayability before anything else.
Mason Cooley
Image
Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Mason Cooley
Image
Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
Mason Cooley
Image
The time I kill is killing me.
Mason Cooley
Image
Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sulking is silent because speaking would reveal its folly.
Mason Cooley
Image
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
Mason Cooley
Image
Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.
Mason Cooley
Image
The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.
Mason Cooley
Image
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Mason Cooley
Image
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Mason Cooley
Image
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
Mason Cooley
Image
Sex is not imaginary, but it is not quite real either.
Mason Cooley
Image
All anger feels like righteous anger sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.
Mason Cooley
Image
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley
Image
Rules that are never violated cease to be recognized as Rules.
Mason Cooley
Image
The aftermath of joy is not usually more joy.
Mason Cooley
Image
General statements omit what we really want to know. Example: some horses run faster than others.
Mason Cooley
Image
Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
Mason Cooley