Radclyffe Hall famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homesâ€”free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Home #Men #Wind
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Mind #Body #Emotion
Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Men #Light #Darkness
[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Faithful #World #Our Love
in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Normal #World #This World
the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Heart #Mutual Love #Realization
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Gratitude #War #Thinking
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Soul #Coward #Violence
clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Expression #Clothes #Self
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Men #Gentleman #Feels
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#People #Misunderstood #Fiction
Life's not all beer and skittles
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Beer #Skittles
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Black #Trying #World
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Might #World #Sand
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928
-- Radclyffe Hall

#Loneliness #Mad #People

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