To be mad is to feel with excruciating intensity the sadness and joy of a time which has not arrived or has… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“How just it would be if for our final reward we were to be made the masters of time, and if those… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
La guerre, la guerre, everything la guerre. That's how I grew up. So for me, it's real. It's not something in the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Music was a chain forged half of silences and half of sound, love was nothing without longing and loss, and were time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“She could hear in the traffic a white sound that threw veils across the present and allowed her to hold the scene… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join…he postponed his application for the time when he could… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Souls, like rays of light, exist in perfect, parallel equality, always. But for when infinitely short a time they pass through the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Young Bindo Altovini, looking out from time, made a perfect coalition with the mountains, the sky, and the tall redheaded woman who… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The child was left alone to die in the hallway. Here, in the dawn, was mortality itself. In the city were places… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“In the eyes of God, all things are interlinked; justice does indeed spring in great surprise from the acts and consequences of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Though he had spoken of the subject many times, in the silence of his room he added the powerful kind of phrasing… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Those events which have passed, and which are the foundations of our lives, must be somewhere, he thought. They must be recapturable,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“Defiance, Catherine, is a gift of God, who is superior to nature. When nature comes to get you, honor God by treating it, as… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
Because there were all kinds of hell - some were black and dirty, and some were silvery and high. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.” — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“Do you know why you walk slowly when you’re old?” “No.” “Because with age you receive the gift of friction. The less time you… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
The British monarchy has the political and constitutional task of subtracting from the government and governors of Britain the papal and kingly airs that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“Your time is a good time, and though I have to leave, you can stay. How lucky you are to be in the city… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music;… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert S. Bosco's… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“If all the months and all their days could be like June weather in New York, there would be paradise on earth. Often, in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
“At least until there are new lakes in the clouds that open upon living cities as yet unknown, and perhaps forever, that is a… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
You will most appreciate 'Freddy and Fredericka' if you are familiar with the story of the Fall, the Good Hermit, 'Tom Jones,' 'Huckleberry Finn,'… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals. — Mark Helprin Copy Share
'Freeing' a literary work into the public domain is less a public benefit than a transfer of wealth from the families of American writers… — Mark Helprin Copy Share
![“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy...Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.” quote by Mark Helprin](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b55/mark-helprin-1171_book_when-he-s-here-he-s-always-reading-he-sa_2013657.png)
