M.K. Alexander Quotes

I want to get enough [money] to take off the hardships of life and leave me free to follow the ideas that interest me the most.

Love is the only memory one never loses, Isaac.” His father had said. “Because even if one loses his mind the memory always remains in the heart.

And so shall honor Morgant, " Gwydion said, "for what he used to be, and Ellidyr Prince of Pen-Llarcau for what he became.

I can't imagine why knowledge, truth and love should be so much of a secret

The future belongs to those who procreate.

A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, and moral being.

People don’t talk about mercy very much these days—it has a rather old-fashioned ring to it. but it exists and its power is quite extraordinary

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

Myth could be as sustaining as reality - sometimes even more so.

It turned out keeping reality bound by mathematical laws was a useful hack preventing the Devil from existing.

Being unique - be yourself, only so you'll distinguish yourself out of the ''grey'' and motionless reality. Train positive perception of the surrounding things.

Absolute love, heals absolutely.

The recipe for each child is just for that child, even if it is the same mother and father.

Light-minded society mercilessly persecutes in reality what it allows in theory

Nowadays it's more beneficial to act like a mutt, than understand reality.

This land needed a sword forged in the hottest of fires to regain what was lost...and you are that sword.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...

No matter what you do, no matter how far away you run, what’s written in the stars cannot be undone.

Fortunes mean nothing without knowing the lives they forever changed.

There are no accidents, Anna. Everything correlates. Everything connects. Every detail bears a consequence. One instant begets the next. And the next. And the next.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.

The past is set down in a thousand thousand indelible scrolls. But the future is a blank parchment forever in wait of a present.

It doesn’t matter whether you believe in ghosts. The ghosts believe in you.

In these circumstances they did what most of us do, and, being ignorant of the truth, persuaded themselves into believing what they wished to believe.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Perhaps somebody has alredy written it. But I want to write a story from the end till the very beginning.

Personally I know only one person who wrote about utopia. Afterwards he was executed. I suppose it's not my genre.

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding, " and can wait God’s time for the rest.

Endeavour to explore the surrounding world, try to do your best and jump over you head, only in that case you'll achieve a result.

I don’t need luck, ” Chirrut said. “I have you.

Except for in politics, no one likes to follow an idea without a firm base to walk on

Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.

If you want truth, you should begin by giving it.

Is that not always the case? Given any two people in a relationship, one will always love more, the other less. Right?

Lean on God, and he leans on you fulfilling his love on Earth.

Love is the intoxication of God.

Good luck is the expression of your divinity within.

Because Dad told you he'd be here forever. Because I thought forever was like Mars -- far away.

There is no right or wrong way to grief. There is only one way - your way!

Thus heaven's gift to us is this: That habit takes the place of bliss.

A man can smell a woman's sadness

We don’t have time, we just have a moment in time.

Boys, men, " she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is.

You should have seen him, ” she said. “A real ladies’ man. Stuff in his hair. Dark glasses. Fancy shoes. He had no idea how funny he looked. I much prefer men with ordinary shoes and honest trousers.

If we let the men talk about them and decide them, then suddenly we wake up and find out that the men have made all the decisions, and these decisions all suit men.

Men, she thought, were odd about their clothes: they liked to wear the same things until they became defeated and threadbare.