Author Quotes

My nights are rich with mystery, my dreams breathless with expectation.

The time to make your mind up about people, is never.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Dee Brown (writer)

Art is a misleading, deceptive superstition; in it we think that we have before us the last, innermost essence of humanity itself; and yet, it merely foists upon us a beautiful product of man, in which are set down all of the egotistical, self-satisfying thoughts and emotions which remain sterile and ineffective in the world of action. And I, imbecile, esteem this product more highly than the human being himself, whom God has created.

Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder

Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

Lady Caroline Lamb

Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

Elizabeth Fishel

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who doubts, on the skeptic who would fain believe, on the galley-slave of life who puts to sea alone, in the darkness of night, beneath a firmament illumined no longer by the consoling beacon-fires of the ancient hope.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

But when the conquered spirit breaks free And indicates a new light Who'll take care of the cats?

I was compiling a list in my head titled 'Reasons to Get Up: You Don't Have to Leave, but You Can't Pee Here.

I am dying of thirst by the side of the fountain.

Charles, Duke of Orléans

A church is an interesting place once you get the parson and the people out of it. Real music can get in then, and a real God! Nothing flibertigibbet about religion then.

Mazo de la Roche

Whenever [my father] saw me reading, he would tell me to put the book down and go outside, act like a normal person. Go play, go fish, go swim, go do something — why are you reading all the time?

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Germany, Germany above everything,
Above everything in the world,
When, for protection and defense, it always
takes a brotherly stand together.
From the Meuse to the Neman,
From the Adige to the Belt,

August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.

God taking from us and loving us at the same time by providing comforters was a kind of spiritual equanimity. It seemed a phenomenon of life how a death insinuates us into the debt of those who stand by us in trouble and console us.

Wonder is music heard in the heart, is voiceless...

Rosemary Dobson

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Antonio Machado

Is it for miracles
We live? I like it when the morning sun lights up my room Like a yellow jelly bean, an inner glow. May mutters: "Why ask questions?" or, "What are the questions you wish to ask?"

If we think saying no is going to hurt a guy's feelings, imagine what a restraining order will do.

Susan Jane Gilman

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

So there are no more words and all is ended; The timbrel is stilled, the clarion laid away; And Love with streaming hair goes unattended Back to the loneliness of yesterday.

Joseph Auslander

I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.

Eleanor Coppola

This tale is not true: you [Helen] did not even board the well-benched ships, and you did not go to the citadel of Troy.