77 Quotes by Laura Riding

Ideas are the old-age of art. Artists have to keep young; they must not think too much – thought is death, while art is life. Such was Emile’s viewpoint.

I met God. ‘What,’ he said, ‘you already?’ ‘What,’ I said, ’you still?

Nature is what you don’t have to trouble about. It looks after itself.

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time – the telling of what came first and before done forever.

To tell one comprehensive story of how it has happened that what is is, one which shall hold true, come what may, now-after – a story that whatever comes shall perfectly continue or confirm: such is the ideal motive of religions.