Quote

Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses.

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
Attention
Pain
Moans
Excuses
Pays
Excuse
Pay

More quotes by Mason Cooley

Image
Unlike the ambiguity of life, the ambiguity of language does reach a limit.
Mason Cooley
Image
Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
Mason Cooley
Image
Boredom turns to panic if my beloved leaves before the usual time.
Mason Cooley
Image
Our most important decisions are made while we are thinking about something else.
Mason Cooley
Image
Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts.
Mason Cooley
Image
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
Image
Respectability is joining chastity in the museum of dead issues.
Mason Cooley
Image
I answered my father's demands for sympathy with silence.
Mason Cooley
Image
A sense of righteousness is even more dangerous than a violent temper.
Mason Cooley
Image
Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
Mason Cooley
Image
The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.
Mason Cooley
Image
A dense undergrowth of extension cords sustains my upper world of lights, music, and machines of comfort.
Mason Cooley
Image
Shameless: Punish me for my desire if you will. It burns still.
Mason Cooley
Image
The squabbles of philandering Zeus and shrewish Hera are the Greeks' comment on married life.
Mason Cooley
Image
There is a line between a definite maybe and an indefinite yes.
Mason Cooley
Image
Man invented the gods. Then the gods went off on their own, but not far.
Mason Cooley
Image
The worship of Mammon may be vulgar or immoral, but it persists while other religions falter and disappear.
Mason Cooley
Image
A dirty mind is a rich inner resource.
Mason Cooley
Image
Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.
Mason Cooley
Image
The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
Mason Cooley