Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Despair, Age, Literature

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.159, Macmillan

• Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, Age, Firsts

  Flannery O'Connor (2014). “Mystery and Manners”, p.77, Faber & Faber

• We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Judging, Doubt, Wish

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.117, Macmillan

• Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Eye, Grace, Feelings

  Flannery O'Connor (1993). “"A Good Man is Hard to Find"”, p.58, Rutgers University Press

• I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, War, Lying

• The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Religious, Writing, Men

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