Kingstead London Quotes & Sayings

But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end. — J.M. Coetzee

One has to be alone, under the sky, Before everything falls into place and one finds his or her own place in the midst of it all. We have to have the humility to realize ourselves as part of nature. — Thomas Merton

The skin was not skin at all, but bone. Ectoskeleton. — John Steakley

I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. — Charlotte Eriksson

Women have been systematically pushed out of spirituality by men. — Frederick Lenz

You love another person not because of his virtues- that is infatuation- but in spite of his faults," he said to her. "Love has no place for idealization. — Sudhir Kakar

Tell me something about yourself that no one else knows. — Colleen Hoover