44 quotes found
“With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.”
“It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so.”
“My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.”
“Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace.”
“Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it...”
“Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power.”
“His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart.”
“And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create.”
“A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore co...”
“Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.”
“Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army.”
“Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces.”
“The past cannot be redeamed. What has been and what might have been both bring us to what is. To know grief, we must be in the river of time, because grief thrives in the present and promises to be...”
“Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace.”
“Translating the words on the door, he said, "Light from light." "Waste and void, waste and void. Darkness on the face of the deep," I said. "Then God commanded light. The light of the world descend...”
“In this world where too many are willing to see only the light that is visible, never the Light Invisible, we have a daily darkness that is night, and we encounter another darkness from time to tim...”
“When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourselfwell, you can forgive yourself for those.”
“You are reformed, you may be a better man, but you are not a different man. How can you convince yourself of such a thing when you are so conversant with the theology of your faith? From one end of...”
“You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either.”
“I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.”
“But with the morning almost gone, with seven bodachs in the recreation room, with living boneyards stalking the storm, with Death opening the door to a luge chute and inviting me to go for a bobsle...”
“When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it presents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it?Or we yearn for yesterda...”
“So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universeall its matter and forms of energyarise out of thought.”
