19 quotes
Irish novelist and short story writer (1847–1912)
“Come,' he said, 'come, we must see and act. Devils or no devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same.”
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
on Hope
"No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
on Resilience
"I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul."
on Philosophy
"Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh."
on Emotion
"All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world."
"In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves."
"Faith, that faculty which enables us to believe things which we know to be untrue."
on Faith
"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part."
"It is only when a man feels himself face to face with such horrors that he can understand their true import."
"But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together."
on Inspirational
"It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine."
on Imagination
"We learn from failure, not from success!"
on Learning
"for I determined that if Death came he should find me ready"
on Death
"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"
on Wisdom
"Fe es aquello que nos permite creer en cosas que sabemos que no son ciertas."
"Whatever may happen, it must be of new hope or of new courage to me!"
"I have been so long masterthat I would be master still, or at least that none othershould be master of me."
on Power
"I must take action of some sort whilst the courage of the day is upon me."
on Courage
