850 Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

It's a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them--and they simply don't need you. That's all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they'll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on--this desperate need--and only once in a rare million do the same two people need each other.

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.

We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.