Josephine Hart
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.Collection: I Hate You
We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.Collection: Add
Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived sinceCollection: Memories
They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so easily won? Simply the inevitable result of a happy childhood. What makes childhood happy? Parental harmony? Good health? Security? Might not a happy childhood be the worst possible preparation for life? Like leading a lamb to the slaughter.Collection: Keys
That is my story, simply told. Please do not ask again. I have told you in order to issue a warning. I have been damaged. Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.Collection: Order
All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.Collection: People
Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.Collection: Found
We do have choice, but not without some agony.Collection: Agony
Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.Collection: Needs
We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.Collection: Life
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered.Collection: Lying
We learn from tragedy. Slowly.Collection: Tragedy
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.Collection: Ambition
Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.Collection: Conversation
Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.Collection: Survival
I am prepared to accept from others their own version of reality. I think it is a basic freedom really, to create one's own reality from whatever truths are available.Collection: Reality
Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.Collection: Age
hen we mourn those who die young — those who have been robbed of time — we weep for lost joys. We weep for opportunities and pleasures we ourselves have never known. We feel sure that somehow that young body would have known the yearning delight for which we searched in vain all our lives.Collection: Believe
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.Collection: Life
For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the birdCollection: Bird
Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.Collection: Television
The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine.Collection: Art
Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrificeCollection: Time
Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.Collection: Home
My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured the essential dreaminess of his natureCollection: Mother