"But human nature cannot be content on a diet of honey and if there is nothing in one's life that requires pity, one must invent it; for to go through life unpitied would be an unthinkable loss."

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Source : Angela Thirkell (1968). “The Brandons, and others”, Hamish Hamilton

Angela Thirkell

#Loss Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Honey Quotes

“I felt like I wasn't doing justice to either side of my life. It wasn't pronounced. Publicity is an awkward thing to do. It is awkward to call people up all the time and ask them for things on a very basic level.”
“That the people have a Right to mass and to bear arms; that a well regulated militia composed of the Body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper natural and safe defense of a free state, that standing armies, in time of peace, are dangerous to liberty, and therefore ought to be avoided...”
“A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought....”
“I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.”
“In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.”
“Humanity will destroy itself, body and soul, before it will learn a simple lesson.”
“America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.”
“If I let myself sink into depression, I won't be able to get out. And then I'll be awfully unhappy. I just have to turn my face to the light and walk on. And trust that things will be all right.”

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