41 Quotes by Ian Caldwell

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It’s a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world’s ages.

The darkest mistakes can be forgiven, but they can never be undone.

Deep in the marrow of our religion is the conviction that loss and sacrifice are noble. To surrender something is the highest proof of Christian duty.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see.

A Greek has twenty-five centuries of painful history to keep is dreams in check, but there’s nothing more dangerous than to give an American hope.

I’d begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

When God became human, He made Himself into an image. By His own incarnation, He shattered the prohibition against art.

Two people who think they’re in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

His intelligence was relentless and wild, a fire even he couldn’t control. It swallowed entire books at a sitting, finding flaws in arguments, gaps in evidence, errors in interpretation, in objects, far from his own.