Dunsany Author Quotes & Sayings

To each of the mourners outside in the lane, I would be no more than a pale face glimpsed for a moment behind the glass. I wished I could smile at each of them, but I knew I must not, since a grinning mug would spoil their memories of this sad occasion.
We were all of us mourners overtaken by the moment: It was not ours to shape. We must give ourselves over to being the Grieving Family, upon whom others must be permitted to shower sympathy.
All of this I knew without ever having been told. It had somehow been born in my blood. — Alan Bradley

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it. — Franz Kafka

When a baby is born the mother in particular enters into a new larger relationship with the world. She has become connected to all people. She is part of keeping us on earthnot the "us" comprised of individuals but the species itself. By protecting this one baby this gift a mother accepts life's clearest responsibility. — Gavin De Becker

To be exotic, on the other hand, one had to think not just outside the box but outside the world of boxes. — David Sedaris

Encouragement is the engine of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. — Ernest Becker

I was brought up in a household of chaos and I never felt stable at home. — Christina Aguilera

Once the door closed, Tod turned to me. "Girlie, he is fine. He's fine times twelve. He's the new definition of fine." "I've been in love with him since I was five," I told Tod. "I'm in love with him now. I want to have his children," Tod told me. — Kristen Ashley

This was not illegal, (nothing was illegal since there were no longer laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death ... — George Orwell

Childhood is so important. Without a loving one, you're vulnerable throughout your life. We're all the things our parents are - the good and the not so good. Thankfully, I have a wonderful wife who's a brilliant mother. — James Fox

I was afraid to let other make any decisions, because I had no confidence they would be concerned for me. — Joyce Meyer

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. — Frederick Soddy

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. — Edmund Blunden

I want to be a traveling circus in that big-league uniform, like everybody else. — Dontrelle Willis