The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
Aldous HuxleyIn books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
Aldous HuxleyPeople travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
Aldous HuxleyBeing cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.
Aldous HuxleyThere are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.
Aldous Huxley