Malcolm Muggeridge

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

All new news is old news happening to new people

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.