I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and thatโs the lot. Thereโs no mercy in things. Thereโs not even a Great Beyond. Thereโs nothing.
John FowlesWe chase the reward, we get the reward and then we discover that the true reward is always the next reward. Buying pleasure is a false end.
John FowlesIf a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.
John FowlesIt came to meโฆthat I didnโt want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencingโฆa new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.
John Fowles