Susan Howatch Quotes

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom.

Susan Howatch

Tags: society

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to comp...

Susan Howatch

I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to comp...

Susan Howatch

Tags: truth, together, i am

About Author

Susan Howatch (born 14 July 1940) is a British author. Her writing career has been distinguished by family saga-type novels that describe the lives of related characters for long periods of time. Her later books have also become known for their religious and philosophical themes.

Lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Susan Howatch

Lonely, very lonely to have a past no one else can share.

Susan Howatch

I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether...

Susan Howatch

I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether...

Susan Howatch

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Susan Howatch

Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

Susan Howatch

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

Susan Howatch

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255

Susan Howatch

My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.

Susan Howatch

My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.

Susan Howatch

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about hel...

Susan Howatch

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about hel...

Susan Howatch

Tags: faith, god, religion

Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)

Susan Howatch

Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.)

Susan Howatch

Tags: religion, science

There is no timetable for grief, said Bronwen Morgan. Grief isn’t a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief’s time is beyond time, and time itself … isn’t very importan...

Susan Howatch

There is no timetable for grief, said Bronwen Morgan. Grief isn’t a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief’s time is beyond time, and time itself … isn’t very importan...

Susan Howatch

There’s a pattern. Never, never doubt that there’s a pattern. There’s a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.

Susan Howatch

There’s a pattern. Never, never doubt that there’s a pattern. There’s a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone.

Susan Howatch

Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.

Susan Howatch

Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley.

Susan Howatch

You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth … Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you, go forward calmly in the knowledge that the truth persists,...

Susan Howatch

You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth … Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you, go forward calmly in the knowledge that the truth persists,...

Susan Howatch

And daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.

Susan Howatch

And daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret.

Susan Howatch

Practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.

Susan Howatch

Practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve.

Susan Howatch