Madeleine L'Engle quotes - page 6

Madeleine L'Engle was an American novelist, best known for her classic science fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time." Her works often blend science, spirituality, and imaginative storytelling, appealing to both young and adult readers. She inspired generations with her thought-provoking stories and enduring characters. Here are 230 of her quotes:

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

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People become trustworthy when they are trusted.

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My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

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When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.

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I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day.

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She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

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If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

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Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.

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We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.

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George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

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I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

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It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

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If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

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An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.

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It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.

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Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?

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Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

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Only a fool is not afraid.

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They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space." "Oh," the thin beast said. "Aren't they lonely?

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When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

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Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

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