Phantastes Quotes

“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

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

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:life dream

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

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:truth joy

“the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:heart pain

“Past tears are present strength”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:strength past

“Even with her altered complexion and her face of dislike; disenchanted of the belief that clung around her; known for a living, walking sepulchre, faithless, deluding, traitorous; I felt notwithstanding all this, that she was beautiful.”

― George MacDonald, Phantastes

topic:beauty

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