FastSaying

It's despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It's despair that so few of us care. It's despair that there's so much brutality and callousness in the world. It's despair that perfectly normal young men can be made vicious and evil because they've won a lot of money. And then do what you've done to me.

John Fowles

John Fowles

angerdespairjohn-fowlesloveobsessionthe-collector

Related Quotes

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
— John Fowles
brutalitycollectorfight
She smiled at him as they waited for their dessert, her chin poised on her clasped hands.
'You're being very silent.'
'That's how men cry.
— John Fowles
behaviourcryjohn-fowles
The truth was...he was in love with her. Totally over-the-line, no-going-back, not-even-dead-would-he-part kind of shit.
— J.R. Ward
john-matthewloveobsession
Some days simply lay on you like stones.
— Patrick Rothfuss
angerdespairweight-of-the-world
I want to tell you what's really happened."

"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened, come and make love to me."

And we did make love; not sex, but love; though sex would have been so much wiser.
— John Fowles
make-lovesex