Sebastian HorsleyIt's better to be quotable than honest, I don't speak, I quote. I am a fraud. I have cobbled together my personality from hundreds of little bits. I am simultaneously the most gen… ▶374Truth
Sebastian HorsleyMy one concession to American sensibilities was to remove my nail polish. ✨ British Writer Denied Entry to US by Jill Lawless, www.foxnews.com. March 21, 2008.342Politics
Sebastian HorsleySelf-pity is the most destructive of all narcotics.321Humanity
Sebastian HorsleyBut really death seems the least awful thing that can happen to someone344Death
Sebastian HorsleyThe function of music is to release us from the boredom of existence.323Life
Sebastian Horsley[…] life is just the misery left between abortion and euthanasia […] ✨ Sebastian Horsley (2016). Dandy in the Underworld, p.44, Hachette UK369Life
Sebastian HorsleyI can count all the lovers I've had on one hand...if I'm holding a calculator.285Love
Sebastian HorsleyI 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 n… ▶227Thought
Sebastian HorsleyBeing well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which psychoanalysis is powerless to bestow. ✨ The agony and the ecstasy by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. May… ▶153Politics
Sebastian HorsleyYou 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 m… ▶164LifeReflectionTruth
Sebastian HorsleyI have wanted only one thing to make me happy. That thing is everything.2210Reading
Sebastian HorsleyAn artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pai… ▶133DeathSadness
Sebastian HorsleyOne 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. … ▶133Time
Sebastian HorsleyThe motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'. ✨ Sebastian Horsley (2016). Dandy in the Underworld, p.292, Hachette UK157Humor
Sebastian HorsleyUnhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations. ✨ Sebastian Horsley (2016). Dandy in the Underworld, p.234, Hachette UK179Hope
