The Magus Quotes

“I had got away from what I hated, but I hadn’t found where I loved, and so I pretended that there was nowhere to love.”
― John Fowles

“When you love me, it’s as if God forgave me for being the mess I am.”
― John Fowles

“What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of seducing them out of their clothes into nakedness.”
― John Fowles The Magus

“The battle was over. Our causalities were some thirteen thousand killed. Thirteen thousand minds, memories, loves, sensations, worlds, universes- because the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself- and all for a few hundred yards of useless mud.”
― John Fowles

“Let those love now who've never loved; let those who've loved, love yet again.”
― John Fowles

“Bir budalanın düştüğü yüksekliğin öfkesiyle ölçüldüğünü biliyordum.”
― John Fowles

“All the things man has made are eventually destroyed.”
― Megan Whalen Turner

“I don't want to live any more. I spend most of my life not wanting to live. The only place I am happy is here where we're being taught, and I have to think of something else, or reading books, or in the cinema. Or in bed. I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist. I can't remember having been happy for two or three years. Since the abortion. All I can remember is forcing myself sometimes to look happy so if I catch sight of my face in the mirror I might kid myself for a moment I really am happy.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“The maze has no centre. An ending is no more than a point in sequence, a snip of the cutting shears.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“Though one can accept, and still not forgive; and one can decide, and still not enact the decision.”
― John Fowles, The Magus

“It's just I haven't roots anywhere anymore. I don't belong anywhere. They're just places I fly to or from. Or over. I just have people I like. Or love. They are the only homeland I have left.”
― John Fowels