L S May Quotes

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods.

Be worthy love, and love will come.

ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

People are basically irritating. Myself included.

Failures plagued me. Things I had omitted or ignored, neglected. What I should have given and hadn’t. I felt the biting pang of every unfulfillment.

I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

It is highly significant and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in such identification through one's own sensitivity with suffering of one's fellow human beings." (p. 16-17)

Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.

So let the world go, but hold fast to joy.

Poets may be delightful creatures in the meadow or the garret, but they are menaces on the assembly line.

Consciousness is the awareness that emerges out of the dialectical tension between possibilities and limitations.

Your power as a woman, as a mother, is your medicine, and it saved you. Take your courage in that.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

One must have at least a readiness to love the other person, broadly speaking, if one is to be able to understand him.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

The most effective way to ensure the value of the future is to confront the present courageously and constructively.

Excellence costs a great deal.

We share half our genes with the banana. [After the announcement Jun 2000 that a working draft of the genetic sequence of humans had been completed by the Human Genome Project.]

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

[On her recently widowed father's much younger wife:] My father has been very busy in conjugating the verb to love, and I assure you he declines its moods and tenses inimitably.

Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.

I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.

Einstein got most of the things right about black holes. I'm not an expert, I must admit

Mantovani was a great influence on me.

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch.

I think Queen tribute bands are great. However, we have to keep them at arm's length, otherwise it could be too dangerous.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Words are dangerous things.

It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

Fashion is about fun, you know, and I think a lot of people forget that sometimes.