Lenclume At Cartmel Quotes & Sayings

The secret seemed to me much more mysterious than that; it was the secret, I thought, of one who had known death; for I moved a stranger among ordinary people, like a man who has risen from the grave, and at first I merely felt rather painfully out of my element; but soon I became aware of a very different feeling.
Was it pride now? Perhaps; but at any rate there was no trace of vanity mixed with it. It was rather, for the first time, the consciousness of my own worth. What separated me - distinguished me - from other people was crucial; what no one said, what no one could say but myself, that was my task to say. — Andre Gide

Perhaps God is not dead; perhaps God himself is mad. — R.D. Laing

People make a lot of noise about not knowing anything. — Richard Roberts

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig

My God! Who is this creature? It considers itself human. — Saul Bellow

As he farmed, hard labor left his hands callused, the sun bleached his hair, his face leathered, and his heart throbbed with music. — Brenda Sutton Rose

I don't think I was ever ... trying to kill myself but I knew that if I'd ever gone too far ... I wouldn't care. — Demi Lovato

He could see perfectly well that "it," his life, was leading nowhere, that he wss behaving like a miser who hoards gold simply for the pleasure of looking at it, except that in his case it wssn't gold but experience, which was the one thing he took from life. And yet experience, unless applied to something, is just like that hoard of gold, for it neither produces nor bears fruit and is utterly useless. There is no point in a man accumulating experience the way someone else might collect stamps. — Jose Saramago

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb. — Michael Bassey Johnson

To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins) — Elizabeth Spencer