Quotes by Knowles, John

“Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.””

“Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.””

“So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.””

“All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against this enemy they thought they saw across the frontier, this enemy who never attacked that way”

“But I was used to finding something deadly in things that attracted me; there was always something deadly lurking in anything I wanted, anything I loved.””

“When you love something it loves you back in whatever way it has to love.””

“This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the giants of your childhood, whom you encounter years later and find that they are not merely smaller in relation to your growth, but they are absolutely smaller, shrunken by age. In this double demotion the old giants have become pygmies while you were looking the other way.””

“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him.””

“But something held me back. Perhaps I was stopped by that level of feeling, deeper than thought, which contains the truth.””

“Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.””

“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.””

“Looking back now across fifteen years I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.””

“It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.””