Beyond Life Quotes

“But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating
conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“The only way of rendering life endurable is to drink as much wine as one can come by.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“When you consider that presidents and chief-justices and archbishops and kings and statesmen are human beings like you and me and the laundryman, the thought becomes too horrible for humanity to face.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“alcohol played the midwife”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.

[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“The present supply of realism is nothing but the publisher's answer to a cheap and fickle demand...if realism be a form of art, the newspaper is a permanent contribution to literature.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life

“the general public enjoys reading any book, of any kind, that is being read by the public generally, through much that herd instinct for doing what everybody else is doing, which exalts sane women upon three-inch heels, and attaches buttons to the sleeves and coat-tails of presumably intelligent men.”
― James Branch Cabell, Beyond Life