Morris L West quotes

" "If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine." " # Friends and Friendship # Adversity # Life and Living

" "The hardest freedom to maintain is the freedom of making mistakes." " # Freedom

" One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. " # Security # Risk # Death and Dying

" "There are a few of us —madmen all! —who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting—" " # Obscenity # Love # Truth

" "No man —prince, peasant, pope, —has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!" " # Taste # Love # Freedom

" "Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!" " # Language # Freedom # Love

" "If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth." " # Truth # Intelligence and Intellectuals # Humankind

" "O Mother of Christ, who saw what men could do to one who heard an alien music! Bend to me, be tender. I am blind and deaf and dumb. And yet I do see visions, shout a kind of praise, feel in my pulse apocalyptic drums." " # Vision # Music # Love

" " I wonder how it will read five hundred years from now? —To make a man confess a loving God you burn him!" " # Books - Reading # Confession # Love

" "To make that long, last donkey-ride between the pikeman and the stake, to hear the shouting and the chant of hypocrites, to be a spectacle for animals in human masks!" " # Advice # Hypocrisy # Animals