“I seem to be less depressed but also less hopeful now in my thirties. My widow's peak bothers me. I think a lot about the end of the human race. And so on.” ThinkingHumansEndsSeemsRaceBotherHuman RaceHopefulWidows Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.” IfsFeelsHumansFactsTermBornMiddleInnocenceDemonVacuumsNormality Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“The urban, on the other hand, is often seen as more real and mundane, even though it is obviously far more recent in terms of planetary development. I think this might be because nature corresponds to the unconscious and the artificial world of the city and human culture to the conscious mind.” ThinkingWorldMindHumansRealHandsMightCultureTermCitiesDevelopmentConsciousUnconsciousArtificialUrbanMundaneConscious Mind Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“If you look at the ox-herding pictures - specifically the newer set of ten pictures rather than the older set of eight - you see that after the blank circle of the void, the cycle comes back to a river flowing by the roots of a tree (both strong symbols of nature, the life-force, the unconscious) and to the wanderer returning to the market place, which is the realm of human society and activity.” IfsHumansLooksStrongForceTreeActivityTenRiversRootsEightCirclesSymbolsRealmsUnconsciousCyclesVoidBlankHuman SocietyWanderers Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.” HumansWholeMysteryExpressionBuddhismRejectionHuman ExperienceRealisationHemisphere Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I find strangest of all for a muse, a human female. Of course, she's also adept at taking the form of toothless old Japanese men or young English lads with tattoos.” MenWritingHumansFormYoungCoursesPiecesStyleFemaleErasLandscapeMuseTattooLadAdeptToothless Author:Quentin S. Crisp
