There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.

With every increase in the degree of consciousness, and in proportion to that increase, the intensity of despair increases: the more consciousness the more intense the despair

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues

Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse like bride

Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre of this room and through the centre of these people and suddenly to pause and petrify, stiff, still and glittering... and the objects in the room drew a little closer together.