The Last Word Quotes

“Zealots are totally incapable of any emotion other than rage. It is an unalterable law that people who claim to care about the human race are utterly indifferent to the sufferings of individuals.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“You must make small steps into the air of being yourself. Find yourself in an empty landscape, build your character, and then spend the rest of your life demonstrating it.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“Whereas in the twentieth century, there was a distinction between men and women, in the twenty-first century the lines of gender will become more and more blurred.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“I am consumed perpetually by an inner spiritual flame.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, ‘We are all put into the world for...’ because we weren’t put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that’s fine.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography

“Later, I met a woman to whom I said, “If all my family had stood around me as a child and said, ‘You’re wonderful. You’re wonderful. You’re wonderful.’ after an hour I would have complained, ‘You’re not saying it loud enough.”
― Quentin Crisp, The Last Word: An Autobiography