Literary & Author Quotes

“Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.”

Jostein Gaarder from Sophie’s World (an all time fav)

 

CS Lewis is great. I’ve read some of his stuff. I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he and Tolkien would meet and discuss their books. Surely they talked about more than Narnia and Hobbits.

 

"A future built on hatred cannot stand. It is like building a house that is on fire. You cannot build fast enough to out run what devours you."

R.S. Belcher

 

“Compassion. Love. It was not civilization that birthed these gentle gifts.... A civilization was the means by which too many people could live together despite their mutual hatred. And those moments where love and community burgeoned forth, the cynics descended like vultures eager to feed, and the skies soured, and the moment died away.”
Steven Erikson

 

“When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.”
? Steven Erikson, The Bonehunters

 

"People tell lies to benefit their present."
Harry Connolly, The Way Into Magic

 

“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
Joseph Conrad