Rebecca West Quotes

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.