Explore Book Quotes

“The creature’s illusion of sufficiency must, for the creature’s sake, be shattered […] And this illusion of sufficiency may be at its strongest in some very honest, kindly, and temperate people, and on such people, therefore, misfortune must fall.”

“That’s right, Eeyore. Drop in on any of us at any time, when you feel like it.” “Thank-you, Rabbit. And if anybody says in a Loud Voice ‘Bother, it’s Eeyore,’ I can drop out again.”

“What you’re searching for isn’t out there, hiccup. It’s in here.”

“No amount of outside achievement fixes inside hurts.”

″‘I don’t really know,’ I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.”

“Do not be discouraged by the resistance you will encounter from your human nature; you must go against your human inclinations. ”

″[I]t is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as most believe.”

“She felt somehow very like him—the young man who had killed himself. She felt glad that he had done it; thrown it away. The clock was striking. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. He made her feel the beauty; made her feel the fun. But she must go back. She must assemble.”

“I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.”

“If he could come into the world this day and see the things that men have made in his name, would it not blast his soul with horror? Would he not go mad at the sight of it, he the Prince of Mercy and Love!