Sebastian Horsley

“The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.”

“But then, people always loathe those they have wronged.”

“One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.”

“Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.”

“I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.”

“Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.”

“The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.”

“I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.”

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”

“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”

“You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.”

“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”

“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”

“We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.”