Cyril Connolly Quotes about Reality

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly

Reality, History, Drug

1944 The Unquiet Grave, pt.1.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Cyril Connolly

Sadness, Reality, Wind

"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

Cyril Connolly

Mistake, Reality, Interesting

The Unquiet Grave Pt II

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

Cyril Connolly

Running, Reality, Wind

"The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.