Who Wrote That? #21

“We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, ‘Oh, nothing!’ Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.”

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”

"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."

“I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing.”

“Where the quiet-coloured end of evening smiles,

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."

"History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”