Sebastian Horsley > Quotes

“We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography

“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

“Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.”
― Sebastian Horsley

“[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography

“But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography

“I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.”
― Sebastian Horsley, Dandy in the Underworld: An Unauthorized Autobiography