The Madness of Grief Quotes

“A tortured man but a marvellous writer, complex and yet also entirely simple. As I always say, one is never too young to be reading Kafka, and never too old to be reading him differently.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“We're a nation of hypocrites pretending to be prudes, that's what we are.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“Stop and start, stop and start, Tuesday afternoon had jumped into the evening, the evening had burst into the night, the night had now careered into the morning. It was already a different day, a pile-up of the whirlwind succession of events that in less than the hours of a day had revealed, unravelled and then hidden again truth after truth after truth.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“Kindness should always begin with the truth.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“All the fun of Saturday is gone, Monday is looming, and suddenly the weight of the world seems so unbearably heavy. The mistake, of course, is how extremely we separate the week from the weekend; it’s very punishing.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“To think we’ve put a man on the moon… And we still can’t teach our kids right from wrong.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief

“I remembered reading somewhere that dreams that had been dreamt had already served their purpose, and that attempting to interpret them was not only futile, it was actually counter-productive.”
― Panayotis Cacoyannis, The Madness of Grief