Josephine Hart Quotes

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.

We learn from tragedy. Slowly.

That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.