The Glass Pearls Quotes

“Nothing was given free, but he had paid the price with bank-notes of sleepless nights, the silver of ghastly hours, the coppers of anxious minutes.”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls

“Like a flash, a word sparked into his mind: Aestivate! That was it: the word he could never remember, the correct term for spending the summer in a state of torpor -- the variant to hibernation. He said it aloud: "Aestivate.”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls

“Humanity and the Moon are enormous structures, but hold a match in front of your eyes and you can span the Moon.”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls

“It is futile to try to prove that a woman is unworthy of you and that, in fact, you are far better off without her. [...] For some unknown reason, a bond has been created between her and you, a relationship similar to magnetism, and it cannot be broken by ordinary means.”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls

“There is nothing the logical mind resents more than the fact that logic is totally useless in matters illogical.”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls

“Music was a miraculous, bottomless purse: the more you took out of it, the more it kept for you”
― Emeric Pressburger, The Glass Pearls