Lyman Hall Quotes & Sayings

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine. — Chaim Potok

No one stays for you.
Everybody stays depending on their need for you. — Ahlam Mosteghanemi

I think the gift of my mother's death, if anything so terrible can be said to have an upside to it, is that I was always keenly aware that life was fleeting, and that you'd better live while you have the chance. As I say in the book, since I was 19 years old I felt like I was living for two, and when I out-lived my mother, when I got into my forties, it felt like a miracle to me. — Anna Quindlen

Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. — John Updike

It was all that vain, egotistical insincerity of self-reproach. By blaming ourselves we take away the right of others to do the same — Irvine Welsh

The jewels of sorrow last forever — James Thurber

Oh, I've no sense of self-preservation," Reynard replied easily. "That's what I depend on you for. — Martha Wells

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime. — George Soros

Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back. — Frederick William Faber