"Lost Horizon" Quotes
"Lost Horizon" by James Hilton is a novel about a group of Westerners who discover the mystical and utopian lamasery of Shangri-La hidden in the Himalayas, offering a sanctuary from the turmoil of the outside world.
fiction | 200 pages | Published in 2022
Quotes
The only danger about adventure is that you have to put up with the gentlemanly delays and the tedious preparations of civilization before setting out.
To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.
I suppose a wanderer must settle somewhere.
It is only by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. It is the same with one's self.
I can enjoy society in my own way.
Each man reads his own meaning into new things.
That's true. I wonder if we do walk eternally in the dark, unable to stretch out our hands and splatter their palaces with the blood of their rotten hearts.
The weight of a long, dull imprisonment. I suppose I was waiting for ... for you, quite impressively, I confess - and rather pathetically.
There are things that nobody can do without, very little food, a pipe, a rag if you've got one, and Hope.
Yes, it's very strange (the delights of London). And I can't call it by any other word. Its morbidity, its mental vacuity, its hopeless despair make me shudder.
