48 quotes found
Writer · Irish · 1899–1973
Irish writer (1899-1973)
“When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.”
“No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.”
“Silences have a climax when you have got to speak.”
“All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted when you find it taken for granted you are unnerved.”
“With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their nearness to one another. To be three i...”
“Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our interco...”
“Some people are molded by their admirations others by their hostilities.”
“Habit is not mere subjugation it is a tender tie when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.”
“Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to then break our hearts at them because they don't.”
“For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.”
“If you look at life one way there is always cause for alarm.”
“Autumn arrives in the early morning but spring at the close of a winter's day.”
“Experience isn't interesting till it begins to repeat itself-in fact till it does that it hardly is experience.”
“In big houses in which things are done properly there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.”
“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in one's acceptance of it. Solitude is not the solution, one feels followed. Choice - ...”
“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.”
“Each of us keeps battened down inside himself a sort of lunatic giant -impossible socially but full-scale. It's the knockings and batterings we sometimes hear in each other that keep our intercours...”
