74 Quotes by Jessamyn West

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one.

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

The West is color. Its colors are animal rather than vegetable, the colors of earth and sunlight and ripeness.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

People who keep journals have life twice