Quotes by Peter Pouncey

About Peter Pouncey:

Peter R. Pouncey is an author, classicist, and university administrator. The son of a British father and a French-British mother, he was born in Tsingtao (now Qingdao), China. At the end of World War II, after several dislocations and separations, his family reassembled in England, and Pouncey was educated there in boarding schools and at Oxford. For a time, he studied for the Jesuit priesthood but ultimately experienced a loss of faith.
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Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

Peter Pouncey

Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Peter Pouncey

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Peter Pouncey

Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

Peter Pouncey

The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

Peter Pouncey

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Peter Pouncey

Author Bio

  • NamePeter Pouncey
  • DescriptionBritish writer and academic
  • Born1937