Top 15 Patrick White Quotes

كانت في أسعد حالاتها وهي منغلقة الى ذاتها بأفكارها، وكان هذا قوام صلابتها

من الواضح أن الصحاري تُفضل أن تُقاوم التاريخ وأن تُطور سطوره

العظماء يستثنون من الواجبات البديهية

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

Life is full of alternatives but no choice.

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

To make yourself, it is also necessary to destroy yourself.

The map? I will first make it.

هذا الثمل وذلك المجنون وذلك الخائن هم موجودون في كل مكان وزمان

Reason finally holds a gun at its head - and does not always miss.

There's nothing so inhuman as a human being.

She had begun to read in the beginning as a protection from the frightening and unpleasant things. She continued because, apart from the story, literature brought with it a kind of gentility for which she craved.