Frances Farmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
-- Frances Farmer

#Dream #Reality
I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.
-- Frances Farmer

#Privacy #Own Business
To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.
-- Frances Farmer

#Children #Mean #Good Friend
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
-- Frances Farmer

#Atheism #Useless #Littles
Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam. But I must relate the horrors as I recall them, in the hope that some force for mankind might be moved to relieve forever the unfortunate creatures who are still imprisoned in the back wards of decaying institutions.
-- Frances Farmer

#Believe #Evil #Forever
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
-- Frances Farmer

#Children #Father #Feelings
I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.
-- Frances Farmer

#Dirty #Night #Hands
I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.
-- Frances Farmer

#Men #Heaven #Thrones
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
-- Frances Farmer

#Patient #Treated #Persons
Have you ever had a broken heart?
-- Frances Farmer

#Heart #Broken
I miss the comfort in being sad,
-- Frances Farmer

#Missing #Being Sad #Comfort
I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
-- Frances Farmer

#Christmas #Beautiful #Stars
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
-- Frances Farmer

#Girl #People #Calling
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
-- Frances Farmer

#Lying #Dark #Night
I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
-- Frances Farmer

#Friendship #Best Friend #Thank You

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