I used to have about a hundred suits in my late twenties and early thirties when my stock was riding high and I was rich. 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 clothesfashiongiving 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 personalitytogetherlittles 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 painartistblood Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics. Sebastian Horsley narcoticsself-pityself-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 starsevilmen 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 noiselisteningpeople 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 awfuldrugproblem 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-mehatepeople Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. Sebastian Horsley unhappyexpectationslying 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 horriblegrowing-upinteresting People are obsessed by happiness, but there are a lot of other invigorating experiences available. Sebastian Horsley invigoratingobsessedpeople To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book. Sebastian Horsley worthylittlesbook 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 growinghistoricalage […] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] Sebastian Horsley abortionmiserylife-is I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything. Sebastian Horsley make-me-happyone-thingwanted A woman is supposed to have curves like an old Bentley, not like some old bike. Sebastian Horsley bentleybikecurves We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for. Sebastian Horsley abysscharacter 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 motivationartistinspirational 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 greatnessattentionpeople
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