Patrick White

Australia
28 May 1912 // 30 Sep 1990
Writer [Nobel 1973]

Quotes



On Life:

The mystery of life is not salved by success, which is an end in itself, but in failure, in perpetual struggle, in becoming.

On Life:

Life doesn't end on the kitchen floor while there is the will to dance.

Three Uneasy Pieces

On Suffering:

No animal suffers worse than a human being.

The Vivisector

On Self-knowledge:

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

Voss

On Human Being:

There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.

The Vivisector

On Human Relations:

Human relationships are vast as deserts: they demand all daring.

Voss

On Life:

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

The Aunt's Story

On Honesty:

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

The Tree Of Man

On Comprehension:

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Voss

On Truth:

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Voss
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon Francis Bacon
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays

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