194 Quotes by Elizabeth Goudge

Writers and painters have a medium that can foster self-effacements. Actors haven’t. An actor can’t hide himself behind paper or canvas. If you’re not there your art’s not there. That’s why we actors are often such self-centered objects.

A man is not a different person just because he becomes aware. Oh I know it must seem like metamorphosis when the eyes of a blind man are opened, but he’s the same man. We grow, mercifully, and growth is just awareness of more and more.

She felt for the first time in her life, a sense of likeness with another human creature, and a sense of safety, not so much physical safety as the safety of understanding that comes between those who are two of a sort.

Everyone needed someone in the world who was like his other hand. You can’t hold much or do much with one hand only. It is with both hands that a man lifts the garnered gold of the wheatsheaf and the brimming bowl of milk, with both hands that he builds his house, with both hand, clasped together, that he prays.

When he had first come to Mr. Peabody he had not wanted to look back. He had felt like someone just awake after a nightmare, and afraid to think about it lest it catch him again, but now the evil had receded so far that he liked to set it as a backcloth to the procession of his shining days.

Love still owned him, steered him, drew him to itself.

This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority – headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor – ever since it took hold the world’s gone steadily downhill.

And as for herself, if she could manage to welcome sorrow as readily as joy, it would shape her as deftly as joy could have to whatever beauty of being it was within her power to reach...

Insufficient nourishment in the early morning leads to pessimism and doubts.