J.M. August Quotes

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

freedom is nothing but the distancebetween the hunter and the hunted

Now according to German logic, a declaration of war was found to be unnecessary because of imaginary bombings

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.

Family ... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

Forgive me, " I wrote at the bottom. "I did not think I would break.

Don't be afraid of the dark, it's a place where you can hide.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

Six nervous wives at the sink, each quiet as a queen on a chessboard.

There's a time when a man needs to fight and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny's lost, the ship has sailed and that only a fool will continue. The truth is I've always been a fool.

There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.

Perception believed is reality achieved

Please, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the linePlease, Mr. Engineer let a man ride the lineI ain't got no ticket please let me ride the blinds

You can't visit the sins of the father upon the child.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

[We] need people who are kind by instinct, not by effort. But that is what we lack in this time. For progress, we have eaten our souls up, and nothing matters anymore.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

The control of information makes history.

Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?

I need you like the day needs the night" -Quinn O'Shea

Without the dark we'd never see the stars.

You do much worse things- you who can see to other planets."- Bertha, "The Father

Don't you try and go through life worrying about if somebody like you or not. You best be making sure they doing right by you.

Reason. The point where man begins to find that he exists.

Time, it transpires, is not so good at telling after all.

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

Even tied up, he was stronger and more commanding than any man she'd ever met.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia.

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]

I always root for the black man, like penance for something I had not part in creating.

The fact that you and I are acquaintances only interested and amused the ghosts further. Gossip bunch, really.

We are walking through a field of burning bushes, of the everyday heroes God puts in our lives.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

And I reckon them that are good must suffer for it the same as them that are bad.

For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.

Here I am I am tired I am tired of running of having to carry my life like it was a basket of eggs

Growing old - it's not nice but it's interesting.

I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life.

Once I started to value and respect my characters, I could really hear them. I just let them start talking.

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.