Henry Handel Richardson famous quotes

05-13-2025

That most sensitive, most delicate of instruments -- the mind of a little child!
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Children #Mind #Littles
In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Death #Believe #Blow
Oh! mothers aren't fair - I mean it's not fair of nature to weigh us down with them and yet expect us to be our own true selves. The handicap's too great. All those months, when the same blood's running through two sets of veins - there's no getting away from that, ever after. Take yours. As I say, does she need to open her mouth? Not she! She's only got to let it hang at the corners, and you reek, you drip with guilt.
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Mother #Running #Mean
To wake in the night: be wide awake in an instant, with all your faculties on edge: to wake, and be under compulsion to set in, night for night, at the same point, knowing from grim experience, that the demons awaiting you have each to be grappled with in turn, no single one of them left unthrown, before you can win through to the peace that is utter exhaustion.
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Sleep #Winning #Night
The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Truth #Relative Truth #Relative
There are enough women to do the childbearing and the childrearing. I know of none who can write my books.
-- Henry Handel Richardson

#Book #Writing #Enough

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.
Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.
Why should you mind being wrong if someone can show you that you are?
Rogue Squadron doesnâ€™t run. Unless we really, really have to." "No, this will be Wraith Squadronâ€™s mission." "We donâ€™t mind running. Even when we donâ€™t have to.
The inspired moment may sometimes be described as a kind of hallucinatory state of mind: one half of the personality emotes and dictates while the other half listens and notates. The half that listens has better look the other way, had better simulate a half attention only, for the half that dictates is easily disgruntled and avenges itself for too close inspection by fading entirely away.
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.
I rarely drink from the bottle, but I'll smoke a little weed,
It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

Henry Handel Richardson famous quotes

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