Quotes on Menagerie

As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Glass breaks so easily. No matter how careful you are.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

For nowadays the world is lit by lightning! Blow out your candles, Laura -- and so goodbye. . . .

The cities swept about me like dead leaves, leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I would have stopped, but I was pursued by something. It always came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. Perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. Perhaps it was only a piece of transparent glass.