P.J. Mann Quotes

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

But even those five-and-forty minutes were too long, the bored me --and boredom is the coldest thing in the world.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

Time cools time clarifies no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Habituation is a falling asleep or fatiguing of the sense of time which explains why young years pass slowly while later life flings itself faster and faster upon its course.

If you are possessed by an idea you find it expressed everywhere you even smell it.

It is love not reason that is stronger than death.

A human being who is first of all an invalid is all body therein lies his inhumanity and his debasement.

Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate and she is fate.

What the collective age wants allows and approves is the perpetual holiday from the self.

Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire, ' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination.

Death makes us sad, but it can also make us feel more alive.

I'm not really interested in doing a traditional romantic comedy where everything ties up neatly.

I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.