"The Ministry of Fear" Quotes
A man's life takes a dark turn after winning a cake at a charity fair in World War II London.
fiction | 224 pages | Published in 1943
Quotes
One can't love without opening oneself, and opening oneself, that's taking the risk of suffering. One does not suffer when one truly loves, but when one loves, one does not calculate.
Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose to be happy can use it for blackmailing those who don't.
There are people whom one loves immediately and forever. Even to know they are alive in the world with one is quite enough.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
It's so much easier to choose to love than to hate, isn't it?
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.
The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
The sense of unhappiness is still easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.
I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.
