"A Single Man" Quotes

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

A few times in my life I've had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few brief seconds the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think, and things seem so sharp and the world seems so fresh. I can never make these moments last. I cling to them, but like everything, they fade. I have lived my life on these moments. They pull me back to the present, and I realize that everything is exactly the way it was meant to be.

That's where the trouble begins. But that's not where it stops.

How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

It is not the voice that commands the story, it is the ear.

But, my dear, I should be miserable if I had to live without my work. I need it, whether I am successful or not.

Remember, Jim, we cannot choose where we come from, but we can choose where we go from there.

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

There are no good-byes, wherever you'll be, you'll be in my heart.

Everything is going to be all right. Are you sure? Yes, I am sure. Everything is going to be all right.