Quotes

“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” James Baldwin

“The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.” James Baldwin

“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.” James Baldwin

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.” James Baldwin

“Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.” James Baldwin

“The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.” James Baldwin

“Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.” James Baldwin

“It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.” Amelia Barr

“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.” Amelia Barr

“All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.” Amelia Barr

“It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.” Amelia Barr

“The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.” Amelia Barr

“The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.” Amelia Barr

“The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.” Amelia Barr

“But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung.” Amelia Barr

“But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?” Amelia Barr

“Old age is the verdict of life.” Amelia Barr

“There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.” Amelia Barr

“Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.” Amelia Barr

“When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.” Amelia Barr

“That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.” Amelia Barr

“This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.” Amelia Barr

“Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.” Amelia Barr

“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” James Barrie

“Life is a long lesson in humility.” James Barrie

“Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.” James Barrie

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” James Barrie

“Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.” James Barrie

“You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.” James Barrie

“Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?” James Barrie