The Cocktail Party

It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are.

— The Cocktail Party

You will find that you survive humiliation And that's an experience of incalculable value.

— The Cocktail Party

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost How could you understand what it is to feel old?

— The Cocktail Party

You will change your mind, but you are not free. Which cannot be reversed.

— The Cocktail Party

The one thing to do is to do nothing. Wait. … You will find that you survive humiliation and that's an experience of incalculable value.

— The Cocktail Party

We die to each other daily. That at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

— The Cocktail Party

I have had quite enough humiliation And then you speak your mind.

— The Cocktail Party

You're still trying to invent a personality for me Which will only keep me away from myself.

— The Cocktail Party

What is hell? Hell is oneself. And nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

— The Cocktail Party

All cases are unique, and very similar to others.

— The Cocktail Party

Half the harm that is done in this world To think well of themselves.

— The Cocktail Party

It is very often that my patients Who is ill all by himself, is rather the exception.

— The Cocktail Party

There are several symptoms And one of them is an honest mind. That is one of the causes of their suffering.

— The Cocktail Party

You have come to where the word 'insult' has no meaning; And you must put up with that.

— The Cocktail Party

To men of a certain type As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

— The Cocktail Party

The best of a bad job is all any of us make of it — Except of course the saints

— The Cocktail Party

Your burden is not to clear your conscience But to learn how to bear the burdens on your conscience.

— The Cocktail Party

I should really like to think there's something wrong with me — That would be terrible.

— The Cocktail Party

An awareness of solitude.

— The Cocktail Party

Everyone's alone — or so it seems to me. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

— The Cocktail Party

Can we only love And the dreamer is no more real than his dreams.

— The Cocktail Party

I shall be left with the inconsolable memory Why do I feel guilty at not having found it?

— The Cocktail Party

Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it.

— The Cocktail Party

Two people who know they do not understand each other, And who will never understand them.

— The Cocktail Party

In a world of lunacy Violence, stupidity, greed…it is a good life.

— The Cocktail Party

I feel it would be a kind of surrender — Put up with anything, if I might cherish it.

— The Cocktail Party

Neither way is better. To make a choice between them.

— The Cocktail Party

Those who take the other Each way means loneliness — and communion.

— The Cocktail Party

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

— The Cocktail Party

I'd say that she suffered all that we should suffer Than the rest of us.

— The Cocktail Party

If we all were judged according to the consequences Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned.

— The Cocktail Party

Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.

— The Cocktail Party

Every moment is a fresh beginning.

— The Cocktail Party