I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?

Quote by Philip Larkin

Topics: Unhappiness Quotes, Writing Quotes

What will survive of us is love.

What will survive of us is love.

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it...

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it...

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as...

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as...

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have...

They say eyes clear with age.

They say eyes clear with age.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Death is no different whined at than withstood.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems:...

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems:...