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Stephen Fry Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“You can never be sure if what tortures you is the pain of being without someone you love or the embarrassment of being rejected.”
— Stephen Fry, Making History
Tagged: Suffering, Love, Humiliation, Shame, Rejected
“First love is unrequited ultimately because it’s so huge. It’s such an act of giving and it requires so much back that it can never be given back. It’s like an atom bomb…It’s all the energy of who you are and who you want to be and what you love and what you hope to be explodes. It is impossible for a single…human being to offer that back to you in a mutual way.”
— Stephen Fry, First Love Is Always Unrequited- Video
Tagged: First Love, Unrequited
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.”
— Stephen Fry, A quote by Stephen Fry
Tagged: Depression
“Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys.”
— Stephen Fry, The Liar
Tagged: Women, Girls, boys
“Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.”
— Stephen Fry, We Are Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On
Tagged: Education, Learning, Students
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”
— Stephen Fry, More Fool Me: A Memoir
Tagged: Depression, Questions, Friendship
“Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: splendour, cruel, Life, Giving Up
“People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Change, People
“I will defend the absolute value of Mozart over Miley Cyrus, of course I will, but we should be wary of false dichotomies. You do not have to choose between one or the other. You can have both.”
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles
Tagged: Music, Choices, miley cyrus, Mozart
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Love, Art, beauty, Life
“Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: Sex, smiling, vodka, Alcohol
“It is a cliché that most clichés are true, but then like most clichés, that cliché is untrue.”
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
Tagged: Cliches, Truth, Lies
“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.”
— Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles: An Autobiography
Tagged: incurious, curiousity, Learning
“No adolescent ever wants to be understood, which is why they complain about being misunderstood all the time.”
— Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
Tagged: teenagers, Misunderstood, complaints
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
— Stephen Fry, The Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Literary Quotations
Tagged: Books, Reading, kindle, ebooks
“Better sexy and racy than sexist and racist.”
— Stephen Fry, The Hippopotamus
Tagged: Sexy, Sexist, racist
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing — they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
— Stephen Fry, The Ode Less Travelled
Tagged: Philosophy, Psychology, The Art of Awareness, The Person You'll Become
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