Quotes by Theroux, Paul

You define a good flight by negatives: you didn't get hijacked, you di >>

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. >>

Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good >>

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure >>

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else. >>

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Theroux, Paul