Quotes by Wilder Anthony

“A mortal person's mind is like a wilderness, with a tremendous volume of decaying constructs and half-understood experience forming natural harbors for wild animal effects.””

“The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it might be miles from any habitation, while only a few deciduous trees divided it from country studded with bungalows. Some of the land showed traces of heath fires, charred roots and stones lying about on the blackened ground. Walking there was not at all like being in the country. Agriculture seemed as remote as in a London street. This waste land might have been some walled-in space in the suburbs where business men practised golfstrokes; or the corner of a cinema studio used for shooting wilderness scenes. It had neither memories of the past nor hope for the future.””

“Another misfortune was, that he was a bachelor. Ladies think, and I, for one, think that ladies are quite right in so thinking, that doctors should be married men. All the world feels that a man when married acquires some of the attributes of an old woman”

“The past is dead, and all that was good is buried with it. And there's this thick horrible door of the present with its tantalising keyhole. You can press your eye or your ear to it, but you can't turn either into a key. The past goes on inside, that perpetual party, becoming wilder and wilder, but there's no admittance.””

“It is countries with no dissent, which live in the quiet of the grave, that are vulnerable and fragile.””

“I prefer my saints to live in caves and not to try to impose their standards on the world: for single-mindedness is a cold virtue.””

“A country that was able to suppress religion entirely and executed dissenters on the merest suspicion was unable to get welders to wear goggles. At””

“If the Albanian Museum of Atheism followed its Soviet prototype, the exhibits would have traced the ascent of Man from amoebae to Enver Hoxha. We””

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From this point of view, propaganda should not approximate to the truth as closely as possible: on the contrary, it should do as much violence to it as possible. For by endlessly asserting what is patently untrue, by making such untruth ubiquitous and unavoidable, and finally by insisting that everyone publicly acquiesce in it, the regime displays its power and reduces individuals to nullities.””

“Jesus, according to both St Matthew and St Luke, spent forty days in the wilderness undergoing temptation by the devil before returning to proclaim his message of repentance and salvation””

“The aim of one man is to leave a wilderness within the Ukraine that is only fit for a bear to live in.””

“And he said......rays of sunshine shall lead you out of the wilderness of your own making.””

“Having only recently achieved my dream of becoming a chef, I disappeared into the wilderness, feeding on the expiring dreams of a succession of misguided souls”