Damon Galgut quotes

“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”
-- Damon Galgut

Source : Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.33, Atlantic Books Ltd

#Done Quotes #World Quotes #Deeds Quotes

“The only way you can be universal is to be sure you are very specifically local.”
-- Damon Galgut

#Way Quotes

“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”
-- Damon Galgut

Source : Damon Galgut (2010). “In a Strange Room”, p.37, Atlantic Books Ltd

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Matter Quotes

“A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.”
-- Damon Galgut

Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

#Journey Quotes #Space Quotes #Gestures Quotes

“There's no theme, no moral to be learned, except for the knowledge that lightning can strike from a clear blue sky one morning and take away everything you've built, everything you've counted on, leaving wreckage and no meaning behind. It can happen to anyone, it can happen to you.”
-- Damon Galgut

#Morning Quotes #Blue Quotes #Sky Quotes

“Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.”
-- Damon Galgut

Source : "In a Strange Room: Three Journeys". Book by Damon Galgut, April 2010.

#Memories Quotes #Return Quotes #Things Happen Quotes

“Poetry was syllable and rhythm. Poetry was the measurement of breath. Poetry was time make audible. Poetry evoked the present moment; poetry was the antidote to history. Poetry was language free from habit.”
-- Damon Galgut

Source : Damon Galgut (2011). “The Impostor”, p.36, Atlantic Books Ltd

#Measurement Quotes #Language Quotes #Moments Quotes

“A busybody's work is never done.”

“I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.”

Source : "Aasif Mandvi talks about acting, comedy and Middle Eastern Corresponding". IFC Interview, www.ifc.com. November 02, 2011.

“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”

“It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.”

“If i were to backbite against anyone, it would be about my parents for they have more right to my good deeds”

“Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power...Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

“The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.”

“Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.”