Top 31 Quotes by Dennis Potter

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.

People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors of childhood.