Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 6

wherever there's laughter, there is heaven. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing. View quote
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People become trustworthy when they are trusted. View quote
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My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock. View quote
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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. View quote
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I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. View quote
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She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present. View quote
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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive. View quote
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Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated. View quote
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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. View quote
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If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be. (Madeleine L'Engle)
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his. View quote
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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about. View quote
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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe. View quote
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It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. View quote
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If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns. View quote
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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy. View quote
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It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real. View quote
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Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them? View quote
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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee! View quote
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In my dreams, I never have an age. (Madeleine L'Engle)
Only a fool is not afraid. View quote
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They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely? View quote
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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is. View quote
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Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you. View quote
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Madeleine L'Engle

Occupation: American Novelist
Born: November 29, 1918
Died: September 6, 2007
Quotes count: 230

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