Literature Quotes - Page 46

Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

By being faithful in that which is another man's, it qualifies you for that which is your own.

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.

In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.

I'm interested in pressure, I'm interested in duress. All the great works of art, or film or literature, in my opinion, have elements of those in them.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

An hour's conversation on literature between two ardent minds with a common devotion to a neglected poet is a miraculous road to intimacy.