The War in Venice Quotes

“She quickly learned that the sight of Venice at given moments can root you in your deepest longings. It can also make you realise your identity too is built on shifting water, consists of rising and falling tides, countless ephemeral reflections and refractions. Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“You'd like to think the death of a person is like the death of a star, that it will enrich the cosmos with precious elements, with added meaning.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Life cannot be experienced deeply without kindness, just as life cannot be experienced deeply without art.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“There are one or two places in the world that know our secrets.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Memory is both the best and cruellest friend we will ever have.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Boyhood still often seems the time he was most real to himself and most wise, as if every habit acquired since is merely fancy dress.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“No one is honest with themselves when they want something.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“It's like men and women sing different words to the same song.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“There are no full stops in the human mind. There is no final draft. Everything that happens continues happening. It has an existence outside of time.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Sometimes I think to learn an adult perspective on life is simply to become good at telling lies, mostly of a flattering nature and mostly to oneself.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“To be aware of time is to be anxious.”
― glenn haybittle, The War in Venice

“Self-pity produces only black and white film. It removes all colour from the imagination.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

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― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“If the infinite is inside us it often takes the guise of terror.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice

“Our struggles to argue our truth into consequence against an opponent are when we are most naked.”
― Glenn Haybittle, The War in Venice