Literature Quotes - Page 37

Have you ever noticed that when you must struggle to hear something, you close your eyes?

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Nothing is as irritating as the fellow who chats pleasantly while he's overcharging you.

There are two ways to handle a woman, and nobody knows either of them.

Being a systematic theologian allows me to indulge all my interests - in literature, film, art, music - by relating them all to God.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end...

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

In the history of old Jewish literature there was never any basic difference between the poet and the prophet. Our ancient poetry often became law and a way of life.

Fidelity is the sister of justice.

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

To be hated cordially, is only a left-handed compliment.

I feel the written word, poetry and literature is just one of the most beautiful things that human beings do. So we have to fight for it.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask?

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.