6 Quotes by Charlotte Armstrong

Everyone walks carrying a hoop of his own horizons, large or small (since scales differ) and more or less illuminated by his own understanding. What resemblance or relationship his world has to the real one, none can know. But the one sure-thing bet is this: The world "I really believe in" does not, it cannot, it never will coincide with reality.

A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

How curiously we are made. … The needle of life writes in the wax of the brain, and the record is our memories. Does the needle lift from the wax and leave no record? Or does a fog come down? What can we say? Do you know, I think the miracle is not that we sometimes can forget, but that we remember so much, so well. [Luther Grandison]

Coincidence means only a connection that’s not seen. Roots meet underground.

A stupid man is a very dangerous man, she thought.

Death sanctifies. It’s solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.