20 quotes found
“Ye cannot know eternal reality by a definition.”
“No people find each other more absurd than lovers”
“Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.”
“Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.”
“I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,”
“A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.”
“I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment...”
“Nothing, not even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is ...”
“I beg readers to remember that this is a fantasy. It has of course - or I intended it to have - a moral. But the transmortal conditions are solely an imaginative supposal: they are not even a guess...”
“And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and...”
“I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road. A sum can be put right: but only by going back til you find the error and worki...”
“The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.”
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that se...”
“I believe, to be sure, that any man who reaches Heaven will find that what he abandoned (even in plucking out his right eye) has not been lost: that the kernel of what he was really seeking even in...”
“And yet all loneliness, angers, hatreds, envies, and itchings that (Hell) contains, if rolled into one single experience and put into the scale against the least moment of the joy that is felt by t...”
“Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they re...”
“Time is the very lens through which ye seesmall and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescopesomething that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the ...”
“Ye can know nothing of the end of all things, or nothing expressible in those terms. It may be, as the Lord said to the Lady Julian, that all will be well, and all will be well, and all manner of t...”
“When you painted on earth at least in your earlier days it was because you caught glimpses of heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the g...”
“I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began”
