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Contentment
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
-John Fowles
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Duty
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Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical.
-John Fowles
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Liberalism
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One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is true
-John Fowles, The Magus
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Poetry
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
-John Fowles
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Questions
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The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
-John Fowles
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Reflection
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You young people can lend your bodies now, play with them, give them as we could not. But remember that you have paid a price: that of a world rich in mystery and delicate emotion. It is not only species of animal that die out. But whole species of feelings. And if you are wise, you will never pity the past for what it did not know. But pity yourself for what it did.
-John Fowles, The Magus
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Self Respect
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There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not anymore what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
-John Fowles
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Books by and about John Fowles