I consider myself to be very correct and proper: an upright citizen. Sebastian Horsley More Quotes by Sebastian Horsley More Quotes From Sebastian Horsley Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. Sebastian Horsley clothes fashion giving It's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most genuine and the most artificial person you will ever meet. Sebastian Horsley personality together littles An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live? Sebastian Horsley pain artist blood Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. Sebastian Horsley narcotics self-pity self-esteem You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars. Sebastian Horsley stars evil men There's a lot of noise about me that stops a lot of people from listening, but the good side is if you expose yourself like that, you're left with only good people who can see through you-you get rid of all the wankers. Sebastian Horsley noise listening people The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful. Sebastian Horsley awful drug problem People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves. Sebastian Horsley dislike-me hate people Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. Sebastian Horsley unhappy expectations lying Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional. Sebastian Horsley horrible growing-up interesting People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available. Sebastian Horsley invigorating obsessed people To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book. Sebastian Horsley worthy littles book One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age. Sebastian Horsley growing historical age […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] Sebastian Horsley abortion misery life-is I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything. Sebastian Horsley make-me-happy one-thing wanted A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike. Sebastian Horsley bentley bike curves We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. Sebastian Horsley abyss character I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman; half-Nazi, half-Liberace. Sebastian Horsley half The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'. Sebastian Horsley motivation artist inspirational I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies. Sebastian Horsley greatness attention people
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