top of page
.png){kind=small}
"It's idiotic, it's crazy. If you die and then you're just nothing, there isn't any point to anything. Why do we live at all if we die and stop being? Father wasn't ready to be stopped. No one's ready to be stopped. We don't have *time* to be ready to be stopped. It's all crazy. . . . Look at my glasses. I can't even see that there are any stars in the sky without them, but it's not the glasses that are doing the seeing, it's me, Madeleine. I don't think Father's eyes are seeing now, but *he* is. And maybe his brain isn't thinking, but a brain's just something to think through, the way my glasses are something to see through."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Philosophical quotes
"In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead. "Do I look dead to you?"
"No one escape death!"
"Man sometimes forget, he will not live forever."
"Death doesn't really worry me that much, I'm not frightened about it... I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"No circumstance is uncommon to a man."
"Nothing is wrong if you walk alone ."
"Man is but his belief."
"Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
"The wiser I become, the less I think beauty has anything to do with appearance."
"Luck of money is never poverty."
Explore more quotes by Madeleine L'Engle
"When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony."
"In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come."
"You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children."
"We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love."
"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
"Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling."
"When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where colours are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize."
"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?"
bottom of page