As long as there is a Church, there will be little Torquemadas
I have never understood why people who can swallow the enormous improbability of a personal God boggle at a personal Devil.
In human relationships, kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
You are lovely, brilliant, witty...the incredible words which would relieve her of any need to repay him or refuse his gifts; loveliness and wit were priced higher than any gift he offered, while if a...
Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife a husband, a lover a mistress, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's...
When I began to realize how often we quarrelled, how often I picked on her with nervous irritation, I became aware that our love was doomed: love had turned into a love-affair with a beginning and an...
There's nothing so heavy as books, sir--unless it's bricks.
There was no scene, no tears, just thought — the long private thought of somebody who has to alter a whole course of life.
Then his friend said, 'If you fly you will save a day.' He nodded, he agreed, he would sacrifice his ticket, he would save a day. I ask you what does a day saved matter to him or to you? A day saved f...
She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.
It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for l...
I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy.You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same...
I have loved no part of the world like this and I have loved no women as I love you. You're my human Africa. I love your smell as I love these smells. I love your dark bush as I love the bush here, yo...
I hate you, God. I hate you as though you actually exist.
Death never mattered at those times - in the early days I even used to pray for it: the shattering annihilation that would prevent for ever the getting up, the putting on of clothes, the wathchign her...
Experience had taught him how far their minds reflected each other. But he was the elder, by a matter of minutes, and that brief extra interval of light, while his brother still struggled in pain and...
Disappointment had to be postponed, hope kept alive as long as possible;
You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
What I've done is far worse than murder - that's an act, a blow, a stab, a shot: it's over and done, but I'm carrying my corruption around with me. It's the coating of my stomach.' He threw her wrists...
We are all resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.