Elizabeth Smart Quotes

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Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Elizabeth Smart
How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love.

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If I had my wilderness, nature could be my lover. What can I do in the paved streets for my thirsty roots? I waste time. I encourage fools. I slip the vital hours into penny slot machines — to pass time, to start my stuck wheels only love can oil.

Elizabeth Smart
I feel helpless, hopeless, too low to call out, too weak to think. Impotent tears dribble down.

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April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats, and skipping ropes and bicycles and a thin new moon.

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I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

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I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

Elizabeth Smart
The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.

Elizabeth Smart
Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.

Elizabeth Smart
Knowing it can always get worse, I try to be grateful for whatever good I have.

Elizabeth Smart
Music is the unspoken language that can convey feelings more accurately than talking ever could.

Elizabeth Smart
Work is the only only only remedy for life: for happiness, for interest, for stability, for security. Hard, willed work. Oh work!

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I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

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All time is now, and time can do no better. Nothing can ever be more now than now, and before this nothing was.

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Vanity is a vital aid to nature: completely and absolutely necessary to life. It is one of nature's ways to bind you to the earth.

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It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

Elizabeth Smart