01UndatedYou only live twice:Once when you are bornAnd once when you look death in the faceIan Fleming / quote ↗
02UndatedI would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
03UndatedHe shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
04UndatedIf you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
05UndatedPeople are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
06UndatedThe conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
07UndatedWhen she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
08UndatedI think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good.-- from Quantum of SolaceIan Fleming / quote ↗
09UndatedBond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
11UndatedHis headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
12UndatedMost marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
13UndatedUnfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
15UndatedAll women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
16UndatedShe explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
17UndatedFor her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
19UndatedYou start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
20UndatedA scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
21UndatedBut I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
22UndatedI've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
23UndatedHe had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. "Give him one more chance.Ian Fleming / quote ↗
