8 Quotes By Anita Brookner


Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner on business

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
Anita Brookner on freedom

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Anita Brookner on friendship

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
Anita Brookner on future

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Anita Brookner on religion

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner on romantic

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
Anita Brookner on society

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Anita Brookner on women