A biography for Dermot Davishasn’t been written yet.
“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”
“Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.”
“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.”
“Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”
“Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.”
“It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.”
“What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.”
“Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?”