Author Quotes

Nothing now remains for us seven but to go back to Stable Hill, proclaim the truth, and take the adventure that Aslan sends us.

True human life does not take place in time but always "is" at the "timeless" point where the past becomes the future - a point which we incorrectly label the present. This is a timeless point, and people are free only at this point.

One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

G. K. Chesterton

Summary riposte
To the dreary wail
There's no knowing what
Love is all about.
Poets know a lot.

A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character.

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!

I am human: nothing human is alien to me.

In Latin: Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

Johannes V. Jensen

In every sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

I love Germany so dearly that I hope there will always be two of them.

François Mauriac

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.

When all is said and done, monotony may after all be the best condition for creation.

Lady Margaret Sackville

My desk, most loyal friend
thank you. You've been with me on
every road I've taken.
My scar and my protection.

Marina Tsvetaeva

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

You can pretend to be serious but you can't pretend to be witty.

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholem Aleichem

There are times when Science does not satisfy.

Rudyard Kipling

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

It is from cowardice and not from want of enlightenment that we do not read in our own hearts.

I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence.

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.

We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.