Midst Quotes - Page 30

• The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Struggle, Reality, Unity

  Thomas Wolfe (2006). “Look Homeward, Angel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those names that goes so nicely with selfish, arrogant, malicious behavior—and really, what did I know about this guy? Nothing, except that his name was Trevor and he’d been nabbed in the midst of breaking-and-entering. That was plenty.

  Cherie Priest

  Selfish, Names, Guy

  Cherie Priest (2011). “Bloodshot”, p.46, Spectra

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• It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tragedy, Possibility, Horrible

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• Sometimes in the midst of all your boy drama, you just need a cupcake.

  Susane Colasanti

  Drama, Boys, Cupcakes

  Susane Colasanti (2013). “So Much Closer”, p.173, Scholastic UK

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• I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical consciousness if there are to be issues, problems, values, even lives to be fought for... Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are noncoercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.

  Edward Said

  Believe, Thinking, Issues

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• The rose petal floats on water. The kingfisher flashes above the pond. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.

  Robert Jordan

  Water, Rose, Ponds

  Robert Jordan (2016). “The Wheel of Time: Books 1–4”, p.419, Macmillan

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• Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Sea, Land

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• Starvation!" exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. "Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find some pitying hand to cast them a mouthful of bread; and that a man, a Christian, should be allowed to perish of hunger in the midst of other men who call themselves Christians, is too horrible for belief. Oh, it is impossible - utterly impossible!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Christian, Dog, Animal

  Alexandre Dumas (2015). “Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}”, p.332, eKitap Projesi (PublishDrive)

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• I am in the midst of a soliloquy! I wrote this out and memorized it and if you interrupt me I will completely screw it up,' Augustus interrupted. 'Please to be eating your sandwich and listening.

  John Green

  Listening, Sandwiches, Eating

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.88, Penguin

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• True Joy is not the absence of pain but the sanctifying, sustaining presence of the Lord Jesus in the midst of the pain

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Jesus, Pain, True Joy

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2007). “Lies Women Believe: And the Truth that Sets Them Free”, p.223, Moody Publishers

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• We wait. We are bored. (He throws up his hand.) No, don't protest, we are bored to death, there's no denying it. Good. A diversion comes along and what do we do? We let it go to waste. Come, let's get to work! (He advances towards the heap, stops in his stride.) In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone more, in the midst of nothingness!

  Samuel Beckett

  Hands, Bored, Waiting

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.72, Faber & Faber

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• How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Emotion, Calm

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today’s faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Adversity, Lds, Faithful

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• We have to keep asking ourselves: 'What does it all mean? What is God trying to tell us? How are we called to live in the midst of all this?' Without such questions our lives become numb and flat.

  Henri Nouwen

  Mean, Trying, Doe

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2005). “The Dance of Life: Weaving Sorrows and Blessings Into One Joyful Step”

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• I believe that she has the kind of magic that causes revolutions and promotes great discoveries. There’s nothing I enjoy more than to observe Gabriela in the midst of a group of people. Do you know what she reminds me of? A fragrant rose in a bouquet of artificial flowers.

  Jorge Amado

  Believe, Flower, Discovery

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• Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Grateful, Sunset, Men

  Laura Hillenbrand (2010). “Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption”, p.166, Random House

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• May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

  Veronica Roth

  Voice, Done, May

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• Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

  Veronica Roth

  Facts, Shock, Grabbing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Closing down in the midst of pain is a denial of a man's true nature. A superior man is free in feeling and action, even amidst great pain and hurt. If necessary, a man should live with a hurting heart rather than a closed one. He should learn to stay in the wound of pain and act with spontaneous skill and love even from that place.

  David Deida

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Deep, contended joy comes from a place of complete security and confidence [in God] - even in the midst of trial.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Joy, Contentment, Trials

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• seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

  Italo Calvino

  Space, Giving, Inferno

  Italo Calvino, Michael Wood, Martin L. McLaughlin (2013). “Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985”, p.13, Princeton University Press

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• The central problem of our age is not liberalism or modernism, nor the old Roman Catholicism or the new Roman Catholicism, nor the threat of communism, nor even the threat of rationalism and the monolithic consensus which surrounds us. All these are dangerous but not the primary threat. The real problem is this: the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, individually corporately, tending to do the Lord’s work in the power of the flesh rather than of the Spirit. The central problem is always in the midst of the people of God, not in the circumstances surrounding them.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Jesus, Real, People

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• This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.

  Beverly Lewis

  Spring, Reading, Heart

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• Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this.

  Paul Celan

  Loss, Light, Darkness

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