The Underground Man Quotes

Mick Jackson
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Underground Man.

The Underground Man Quotes

Mick Jackson
This Study Guide consists of approximately 34 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of The Underground Man.
This section contains 1,599 words
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"As a young man I imagined growing old would be something like feeling one has at the close of a long satisfying day: not unpleasant lassitude, always remedied by a good night's sleep. But now I know it to be the gradual revelation of one's body as nothing more than a bag of unshakeable aches. Old age is but the reduced capacity of a failing machine." pg. 3

"Where my neck and torso come together is usually a regular network of root and vein. Of late, however, I have become uncertain whether all these wires are properly attached. Some appear to have grown quite slack; one or two have come away from their housing altogether. On a bad day I worry that somewhere inside me an essential spring might have snapped, to dangle and rattle about in me for the rest of my days." pg. 7

"When a man starts...

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