C. L. R. James Quotes

What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and good bone structure.

I think Peter was murdered because of what he found out about the company.

Death doesn’t have to be the end of it. Our love for her is stronger than the grave.

... Play the age as comedy if you want to get away with murder.

The attendance of that brother was now become like the attendance of a demon on some devoted being that had sold himself to destruction

History does seem to be just one long succession of murders, doesn't it?

(A murderer about their victim:)"He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

My experience with age it instills a degree of patience in some, leaves the virtuous spiritually unchanged, feeds the character defects in others, and brings little wisdom to any of us.

As long as your life is a succession of love stories, you can never grow old.

Age does not mean wisdom, Do not follow the old man off the cliff.

The older I get the more I realize how simple life is and how complicated we make it...

Well, ” Han said with a sigh, “we’ve gone from no-plan to stupid-plan. That’s progress of a sort.

In day-time we investigate, but at night believe.

It's more dangerous to have a friend then it is to have an enemy.

Minho snickered and leaned back in his chair. “Man, you are one butt-load of sunshine, let me tell you.

Nothing like a little shared racism to build ties with the boss.

Owr brave little shank!

The shrinks call it Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. I call it hell. The demons are waiting in each corner, ready to drag me back to the battlefield.- Puncture Wounds (2014)

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were all for the boy.

... Don't feel bad about crying. Ever.

So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.

Opportunities don’t make U turns.

Negativity is like being stung constantly by a thousand bees. At first it’s really annoying, but after a few more stings it becomes toxic.

Ignorance is toxic.

The day is always good, you just have to ignore the bad and look for the good. Remember it takes more muscle to frown then it does to smile, so smile for another day.

...it should be remembered that men always prize that most which is least enjoyed.

Some things stayed secrets even when you told them.

If you don't talk about it, it didn't happen.

She was wrapped in my jacket, almost swallowed by it. You never realize how small a woman is until she wears your clothes.

I’ve learned that when people are hurting, they need a comforter, not a commentator.

It was awful, this love.

Now I knew that if that's how the devil looks, I wanted to go straight to hell.

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

I am with you because I want to be, not because I need you. It's my will be with you. And that makes it much stronger, because God knows I'm as stubborn as they come.

My mother used to tell me, “Things always look worse at night.” For the most part, I believe her. But some of the troubles that keep me from sleeping look just as bad in the morning.

A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.

You know, sloth is a sin, " he says softly. "I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.

We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed…

I want to glide in a world of beauty, ’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

Maybe you’re smiling as I stumble to put my feelings into words. But I’m trying to do her justice, you know?

I have to say, her blonde bob was amazing. The delicate way it hugged her face and neck. The softness of it...

The only man I’ve ever been attracted to, and he comes with a bloody contract, a flogger, and a whole world of issues.

We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try, those origins which contain the key -could we but find it- to all we later become

The boy I used to know as Thomas Merker has been erased--replaced with a personality programmed by television and commercials to act a certain way.

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

Well, when you were nearly run over by the cyclist-and i was holding you and you were looking up at me - all 'kiss me, kiss me, Christian

The size of a diamond doesn't indicate the size of my love for you. The earth hasn't produced a diamond that big because my love for you knows no bounds. Ronin Black