Book detail: The Black Prince is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
The book follows the life and adventures of a young prince during the 14th century.
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“This was everything that I wanted to be done with, the relaxed banality of life without goals.”
“I need love, I've never felt more in need of it than now. I feel so terribly terribly unhappy.”
“I am not a very nice character. You must get to know me some time.”
“Only sometimes at night when I think that you live now and are somewhere, I shed tears.”
“I've thought about nothing else but you.”
“Oh Christ, if I could only have some happiness.”
“Of course, my dear, I cannot, how could I, altogether regret what has happened.”
“But I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always.”
“Happiness must exist. It can't all be made of pain. But what is happiness made of?”
“So art becomes not communication but mystification.”
“But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.”
“She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct.”
“I felt such a stranger there, like a poor lodger. One must be with one's own people.”
“I am really in love and it's a terrible experience.”
“Of course you don't know yourself, lucky old you. I just know myself too bloody well.”
“(The false god punishes, the true god slays.)”
“Here memory was simply a cold cloud to be shuddered at.”
“It was a voyage into the absurd.”