English Music Quotes

“The world is a sea in which we all must surely drown.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“The best years are when you know what you're doing.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted
life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for
action or change.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“I realized that my time in this place had come to an end; now that my schooldays
were over, I no longer belonged here. I had always been a stranger and, if I
stayed, I would become a stranger to myself as well.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“…sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“I believe now that there can be no real sense of loss or seperation without
the recognition of death; we were too young to consider any such eventuality,
and simply moved on with our lives into some indefinite but illimitable future.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“So do we discover, in the world, that our worst fears are
unfulfilled; yet we must fear, in order that we may feel delight.”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music

“there are no haunted houses...only haunted people”
― Peter Ackroyd, English Music