Quotes by Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks

British novelist, journalist and broadcaster

Lived from: 1953 -

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 20 april 1953

  • I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
  • The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
  • I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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  • I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand.
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  • I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week, a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
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  • I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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  • I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
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  • If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
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  • It's better to have a malign providence than an indifferent one.
    Birdsong (2010) 290
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  • It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.
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  • The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.
    Birdsong (2010) 9
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  • The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.
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  • The thing about opium is that it makes pain or difficulty unimaginable.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
    Engleby (2007)
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  • This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.
    Engleby (2007)
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  • I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.
    Engleby (2007)
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What are the most famous quotes from Sebastian Faulks?

The two most famous quotes from Sebastian Faulks are:

  • "I don't think you ever understand your life - not till it's finished and probably not then either. The more I live the less I seem to understand."
  • "I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything."

When did Sebastian Faulks live?

Sebastian Faulks was born in 1953.