113 Quotes About The-nice-and-the-good

It's so sad, all our house seems broken apart, everyone is going.

I am sunk in the wreck of myself . . . I live in myself like a mouse inside a ruin.

It was too late to go back. There was a hand which could never, in grace and healing, be laid upon him now.

People have disappointed me and deceived me and let me down.

Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.

You rail on us all for not being saints.""Yes, yes, yes. And when I stop that railing I shall be dead. It is the only thing I know and I shall cry it out again and again, like a tedious little bird with only one song.

Mary held her heart, contracted into a point of agony.

I just don't know what's going to happen. All I know is that whatever it is it's got to happen. Next week.

The whole thing, the way it all happened, was shattering. And what it shattered most of all was some conception I'd had of myself, some wholeness.