Alan Chalmers quotes

Alan Chalmers quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.”
-- Alan Chalmers

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“Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us”

Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
“I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.”
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
“We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.”
“Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him....In his desperate ambition for power he discovered that his speeches, confused and pervaded with hate as they were, received wild acclaim by those whose situation and orientation resembled his own. He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.”
“I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.”
“You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.”
“You throw a perfectly straight line at the audience and then, right at the end, you curve it. Good jokes do that.”
“Enlightenment is, in the end, nothing more than the natural state of being.Â ”

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