Book detail: The Nice and the Good is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book delves into the intricate tapestry of human behavior, examining the nuances between niceness and goodness in various social and ethical contexts.
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“You have sometimes thought of going back?" "Yes, I have, but only in a fantasy way.”
“Do you think it's ever safe to say one's happy?”
“I know how he is . . . and I can see he's not a convenient man to be in love with.”
“Why do I always have to be helping people . . . and getting no help myself?”
“But she felt that she had to see him or she would die.”
“We're just living on our emotions and eating each other.”
“Sex comes to most of us with a twist.”
“One knows what being in love is like and it is a very terrible thing.”
“Her love for men had always been somehow neurotic and unfulfilled.”
“You can't kiss me and vanish.”
“I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.”
“I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.”
“It's all someone else's secret.”
“She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.”
“I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.”
“He felt removed from reality.”
“It seemed to echo away into the hidden spaces and honeycombs of the dark.”
“He also wanted to destroy something, everything, perhaps himself.”
“The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.”
“She shivered in the sunlight as if it were the ray of a malignant star.”
“There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?”
“Do anything you like . . . only don't say the word 'never'. I should die of that word.”