Josephine Hart famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
-- Josephine Hart

#Adversity #People #Dangerous
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.
-- Josephine Hart

#Add #Goodness #Prove
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.
-- Josephine Hart

#Found #Let Me #Bearable
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since
-- Josephine Hart

#Memories #Recollection
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
-- Josephine Hart

#Ambition #Winning #Games
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice
-- Josephine Hart

#Time #Sacrifice #Men
We learn from tragedy. Slowly.
-- Josephine Hart

#Tragedy
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.
-- Josephine Hart

#People #Survival #Pity
Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.
-- Josephine Hart

#Needs
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.
-- Josephine Hart

#Television #Arena
I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.
-- Josephine Hart

#Reality #Thinking #Accepting
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.
-- Josephine Hart

#Lying #Omission #Waiting
We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.
-- Josephine Hart

#Life #Sweet #Monday
We do have choice, but not without some agony.
-- Josephine Hart

#Agony #Choices
There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines in our lives. Those who are lucky enough to find it, ease like water over a stone, onto its fluid contours, and are home.
-- Josephine Hart

#Home #Water #Soul
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.
-- Josephine Hart

#Life #Soul #Landscape
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.
-- Josephine Hart

#Keys #Childhood #Soul
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his nature
-- Josephine Hart

#Mother #Essentials #Passionate
Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.
-- Josephine Hart

#Age #Lucky #Odd
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.
-- Josephine Hart

#Conversation #Imaginary
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.
-- Josephine Hart

#Survival #Vision #Elements
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird
-- Josephine Hart

#Bird #Flight #Traps
When we mourn those who die young â€“ those who have been robbed of time â€“ we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasure we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives. We believe that the untried soul, trapped in its young prison, might have flown free and known the joy that we still seek.
-- Josephine Hart

#Believe #Opportunity #Joy
That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
-- Josephine Hart

#Order #Issues #People
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.
-- Josephine Hart

#Home #Wrath #People
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.
-- Josephine Hart

#Art #Passion #Essentials

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