John Connolly quote: "There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.<br />It is really that simple.<br />And that hard."

When did you get so clever?"
"When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.
JOHN CONNOLLY

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY

It’s odd, but people are capable of forgetting quite extraordinary occurrences very quickly if it ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Z útrob Asketické jeskyně v nitru Nezajímavé hory, která se tyčí v části pekla nazývané ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

When did you get so clever?” “When I realized that I wasn’t as clever as I thought,
JOHN CONNOLLY

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY

he would envy each and every living thing its freedom, even if it was only the freedom to die.
JOHN CONNOLLY

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere."
"Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in He...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

After all this time, he had hope, and then hope was gone, and he hates himself for giving in to hope...
JOHN CONNOLLY

You've just inherited rudeness. We've had to work at it.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.
JOHN CONNOLLY

But don't they say that all is fair in love and war? I heard that somewhere."
"'They?' Who are ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...
JOHN CONNOLLY

If there is anything worse than evil, it is nothingness. At least evil has a form, and a voice, and ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

A demon obsessed with being human is a demon no longer
JOHN CONNOLLY

Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially...
JOHN CONNOLLY

. . . For a lifetime was but a moment in that place, and each man dreams his own heaven.

...
JOHN CONNOLLY

For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that wil...
JOHN CONNOLLY

(To those who are themselves unhappy, the contentment of others can sometimes be mistaken for tedium...
JOHN CONNOLLY

where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.
JOHN CONNOLLY

No book is really a fixed object. Every reader reads a book differently, and each book works in a di...
JOHN CONNOLLY

It’s a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, who...
JOHN CONNOLLY

The nature of compassion isn't coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It...
JOHN CONNOLLY

No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ult...
JOHN CONNOLLY

What is good for you creatively is usually bad commercially. You thrive financially by sticking to a...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Being shot at for years by men of a particular nationality will tend to impact negatively upon one�...
JOHN CONNOLLY

I think he'll go very well in rugby, I think he'll be sensational in rugby and he'll have a great fu...
JOHN CONNOLLY

If that had occurred in the city of Manchester, or in the city of Normandy when I was chief, it woul...
JOHN CONNOLLY

I believe in those whom I love and trust.
JOHN CONNOLLY

This life is filled with threats and danger, David. We face those that we have to face, and there wi...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Stories wanted to be read, David's mother would whisper. They needed it. It was the reason th...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.
JOHN CONNOLLY

[Connolly said that the current plan is to start off with two lunar missions per year. That frequenc...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and while it's too early...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We'll definitely look to have a public training session of some description and, while it's too earl...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We got to push the melodic side of it just as far, if not farther, then we've ever pushed it before....
JOHN CONNOLLY

Misery loved company, but damnation needed it.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Jeremy Paul has played quite well, but he has been injured a lot this year. He'll be out for another...
JOHN CONNOLLY

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Prepare for the worst and you won’t be disappointed.
JOHN CONNOLLY

It was human nature. You didn't give everything away; if you did, you would have nothing left.
...
JOHN CONNOLLY

I dream dark dreams.

I dream of a figure moving through the forest, of children flying f...
JOHN CONNOLLY

He was in his mid-thirties, tall and pale and thin, with long, sandy hair and rimless glasses, dress...
JOHN CONNOLLY

[H]e looked like a real bruiser as he stepped from his car, his big sunglasses giving the impression...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Earle had friendly written all over him the way that a plague rat had "Hug Me" emblazoned on its fur...
JOHN CONNOLLY

a technician who uses the term “glitch” is like a
Doctor who tells you you’re suffering f...
JOHN CONNOLLY

It was the kind of bar where everybody knew your name, as long as your name was ‘Motherfucker’.
JOHN CONNOLLY

And there is no doubt our forward effort was not what we would have liked it to have been, and they ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Writers are magpies by nature, always collecting shiny things, storing them away and looking for con...
JOHN CONNOLLY

He became merely the broken statue of a beast, now without another's fear to animate it.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Know a man by his metaphors.
JOHN CONNOLLY

David's mother would often tell him stories were alive. They weren't alive in the way people were al...
JOHN CONNOLLY

What do you believe in?’ asked David.
‘I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else i...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We all have our routines," he said softly."But they must have a purpose and provide an outcome that ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...'
'...Turned out the wicked stepmothe...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply.
'Mo...
JOHN CONNOLLY

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know....
JOHN CONNOLLY

And David saw himself reflected in the Woodsman's eyes, and there he was no longer old but a young m...
JOHN CONNOLLY

You don't have much faith in people, do you?' asked David. 'I don't have much faith in anything,' Ro...
JOHN CONNOLLY

The stories in books hate the stories in newspapers, David's mother would say. Newspaper stories wer...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Eventually the Woodsman spoke. ‘We all have our routines,’ he said softly. ‘But they must have...
JOHN CONNOLLY

And, in the darkness, David closed his eyes as all that was lost was found again.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Stories come alive in the telling. Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

You had evil inside you, and you indulged it. Men will always indulge it.
JOHN CONNOLLY

These stories were very old, as old as people, and they had survived because they were very powerful...
JOHN CONNOLLY

We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we m...
JOHN CONNOLLY

He had quite liked the dwarfs. He often had no idea what they were talking about, but for a group of...
JOHN CONNOLLY

I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his churc...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Before she came ill, David's mother would often tell him that stories were alive. They weren't alive...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Let me tell you the truth about the world to which you so desperately want to return. It is a place ...
JOHN CONNOLLY

You mean they killed her?" asked David.
They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge....
JOHN CONNOLLY

Each man dreams his own heaven.
JOHN CONNOLLY

Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneat...
JOHN CONNOLLY

He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and bo...
JOHN CONNOLLY

One ignored the mundane at one’s peril.
JOHN CONNOLLY

The Detective was different. Not that he wasn't a good man; Willie had heard enough about him to und...
JOHN CONNOLLY

Lamenting what is lost is futile, not lamenting what is to lose is loss. Eternity!
MICHAEL JOHN CONNOLLY

Every day is worth so much more than the one before.
MICHAEL JOHN CONNOLLY

Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Behind the proscenium arch, you can't always hear what people in the audience are saying.
BILLY CONNOLLY

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.
BILLY CONNOLLY

I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

My favorite personal hockey moment was probably when Mike Bossy scored fifty goals in fifty games. H...
KEVIN CONNOLLY

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

In the sex-war thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Except for poverty, incompatibility, opposition of parents, absence of love on one side and of desir...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school....
CYRIL CONNOLLY

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer m...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a ma...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

When writers meet they are truculent, indifferent, or over-polite. Then comes the inevitable moment....
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read onc...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits. It is the style ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The hunt for young authors who, while maintaining a prestige value (with a r
CYRIL CONNOLLY

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literat...
JAMES CONNOLLY

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Slums may well be breeding-grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their materia...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Tennis can be a grind and there's always the danger of going stale if you think about it too much. Y...
MAUREEN CONNOLLY

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unabl...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Were I to deduce any system from my feelings on leaving Eton, it might be called The Theory of Perma...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight t...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

There cannot be a personal God without a pessimistic religion. As soon as there is a personal God he...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of taste.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bo...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victi...
JAMES CONNOLLY

The English masses are lovable: they are kind, decent, tolerant, practical and not stupid. The trage...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Green leaves on a dead tree is our epitaph -- green leaves, dear reader, on a dead tree.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

We must select the Illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Imprisoned in every fat man, a thin one is wildly signaling to be let out.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old f...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-han...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but wha...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Ne...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likel...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is alw...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, wher...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we t...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The person who is master of their passions is reason's slave.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the da...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be graspe...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he starts out, have condemned himself to second-rate ...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The friendships which last are those wherein each friend respects the other's dignity to the point o...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not pe...
CHARLES CONNOLLY

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion, if we want...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becom...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there.
BILLY CONNOLLY

'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academ...
KEVIN CONNOLLY

Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of c...
BILLY CONNOLLY

Nowadays, if you have a mustache, people look at you like you're crazy. But when I was growing u...
KEVIN CONNOLLY

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
JAMES CONNOLLY

I wanted somebody who would provide independence and a professional perspective to this organization...
ANGELA CONNOLLY

By law, we have to keep it at $68 million, and I for one won't go over the $68 million.
ANGELA CONNOLLY

We asked him to shoot us a number that it would take to stay in Polk County. This is the number we c...
ANGELA CONNOLLY

He has to come in at target. He's got to figure out how to do that.
ANGELA CONNOLLY

I've always been fascinated by the difference between the jokes you can tell your friends but yo...
BILLY CONNOLLY

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clea...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Fame is being asked to sign your autograph on the back of a cigarette packet.
BILLY CONNOLLY

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and d...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

I'm famous for my bottom dances, but you'll only see my bum and willy if you raise a million pounds ...
BILLY CONNOLLY

I think that you'll find that Billy Connolly is British.
BILLY CONNOLLY

I'm very big in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, Canada and America. It's nice. I have a lovely life...
BILLY CONNOLLY

There's nothing like it, but it's not as good as you think it's going to be. . . . I was disappointe...
BILLY CONNOLLY

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
BILLY CONNOLLY

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterw...
BILLY CONNOLLY

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them ...
BILLY CONNOLLY

ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã…Â“So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a ...
BILLY CONNOLLY

Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it m...
BILLY CONNOLLY

Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
BILLY CONNOLLY

If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit th...
JAMES CONNOLLY

I'm a citizen of the world. I like it that way. The world's a wonderful. I just think that s...
BILLY CONNOLLY

There are people who didn't like 'The Departed,' you know?
KEVIN CONNOLLY

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with irrational fear of l...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

So, have you heard about the oyster who went to a disco and pulled a mussel?
BILLY CONNOLLY

A writer is in danger of allowing his talent to dull who lets more than a year go past without findi...
CYRIL CONNOLLY

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
CYRIL CONNOLLY

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.

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There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.

John Connolly

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There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.

John Connolly

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There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.
It is really that simple.
And that hard.