850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was bright, And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driven by the spheres, Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta

Experiment is the mother of knowledge.