Sebastian Horsley Quotes

Self-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.

We can't all be stars because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as I go by.

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow.

[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […]

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.

One of the many troubles of growing older is that it gets progressively harder to find a famous historical figure who hadn't yet amounted to anything by the time he was your age.

I can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.

I have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.

You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach. The universe is neither friendly nor hostile. It is merely indifferent. This makes me ecstatic. I have reached a nirvana of negativity. I can look futility in the face and still see promise in the stars.

I didn't want to tell Mother I worked as a journalist. She thought I was a prostitute. Locking yourself in a room and inventing characters and conversations which do not exit is no way for a grown man to behave.

But really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone

But then, people always loathe those they have wronged.

The function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.

What I hate with women generally is the intimacy, the invasion of my innermost space, the slow strangulation of my art.

There comes a time in every person's life when they realise they adore me. Yours has come.

Horsley Bridge is an investment company with stakes in venture funds that backed 7,000 startups between 1985 and 2014.

Clearly everyone in my life who should have been vertical was horizontal.

The air used to be clean and the sex used to be dirty. Now it is the other way around. Soho [London] has lost its heart.