Famous quotes containing the word huxley:
“I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world’s sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.”
—Elspeth Huxley (b. 1907)