Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

Being alive hurts. I have found it best not to rush for the aspirin bottle. - A Severed Wasp

My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

Lords of blue and Lords of gold, Lords of wind and waters wild, Lords of time that's growing old, When will come the season mild?When will come blue Madoc's child?

We all tend to make zealous judgement, and thereby close ourselves off from revelation.

And it came to me as I stood on the desert sand, looking at the Great Pyramid, that what any civilization says about God tells us more about that civilization than it does about God.

But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.

Some of these questions don't have finite answers, but the questions themselves are important. Don't stop asking, and don't let anybody tell you the questions aren't worth it. They are.

but BEing time is never wasted time. When we are BEing, not only are we collaborating with chronological time, but we are touching on kairos, and are freed from the normal restrictions of time.

There’s no such thing as an unbreakable scientific rule, because, sooner or later, they all seem to get broken. Or to change.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.