Rebecca West Life Quotations

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

We think in youth that our bodies are identical to ourselves and have the same interests, but discover later in life that they are heartless companions who have been accidentally yoked with us, and who are as likely as not, in our extreme sickness or old age, to treat us with less mercy than we would have received at the hands of the worst bandits.

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.