George MacDonald Quotes

“For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.”

― George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

topic:love heart

“Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, or a kiss too long,And there follows a mist and a weeping rain,And life is never the same again.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:life failure

“And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:life memory

“To be or not to be, is NOT the question!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:life death

“Blessed be the true life that the pauses between its throbs are not death!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:life death

“Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:life dream

“I had chosen the dead rather than the living, the thing thought rather than the thing thinking!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:death thought living

“Except you are a true sexton, books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:death books

“Thou doubtest because thou lovest the truth.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

topic:truth doubt

“Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:truth joy

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