Quote

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious conscious but not aware aware, but intermittently.

Sebastian Faulks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sebastian Faulks
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: April 20
Broadcaster
Journalist
Novelist
Parodist
Writer
Sebastian Charles Faulks
Alive
Live
People
Intermittently
Aware
Conscious

More quotes by Sebastian Faulks

Image
Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be
Sebastian Faulks
Image
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Something had been buried that was not yet dead.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
It was entirely silent and I tried to breathe its peace.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
. . . she read with undifferentiated glee . . .
Sebastian Faulks
Image
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?
Sebastian Faulks
Image
Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.
Sebastian Faulks
Image
I want to be careful not to throw all this away. This is happiness. I think this is what happiness is. I haven't got it yet, but I can sense it out there. I feel I'm close to it. Some days, I'm so close I can almost smell it.
Sebastian Faulks