--- title: "1 Awful Thing Quotes By Paul Harding" description: "1 Awful Thing quotes by Paul Harding. Plus more from Paul Harding and more Awful Thing sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png" --- > [What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in-our-house-together-with-our/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png) ## More by Paul Harding > [Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/who-was-the-greatest-business-man-ever-the-greatest-salesman/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not contain a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/the-house-had-not-merely-lapsed-back-into-the-equilibrium-of-the/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/your-cold-mornings-are-filled-with-the-heartache-about-the-fact-that/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read has a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/the-fictional-world-seems-larger-seems-to-have-more-dimension-and/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“Howard thought, Is it not true: A move of the head, a step to the left or right, and we change from wise, decent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/howard-thought-is-it-not-true-a-move-of-the-head-a-step-to-the-left/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“The joy of those years had its own integrity, and Kate existed within that. She could not be touched by the misery caused by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/the-joy-of-those-years-had-its-own-integrity-and-kate-existed-within/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in-our-house-together-with-our/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/don-t-confine-truth-to-fact-imaginative-truth-is-as-powerful-and/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“I woke up every morning on the couch. It felt like the same morning all the time, or like an infinite series of nested…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/i-woke-up-every-morning-on-the-couch-it-felt-like-the-same-morning/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had to decide,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/the-silver-lining-of-those-years-when-i-was-trying-to-get-tinkers/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“There was a moment of sorrow, disappointment, and deep love for his son, whom he at that second wished had had a chance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/there-was-a-moment-of-sorrow-disappointment-and-deep-love-for-his-son/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/but-it-s-a-curse-a-condemnation-like-an-act-of-provocation-to-have/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/perhaps-howard-thought-the-curtains-and-murals-and-pastel-angels-are/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“Howard thought, Is it not true: A move of the head, a step to the left or right, and we change from wise, decent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/howard-thought-is-it-not-true-a-move-of-the-head-a-step-to-the-left-2/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) > [“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/and-as-the-ax-bites-into-the-wood-be-comforted-in-the-fact-that-the/) [Paul Harding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-harding/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful-thing/paul-harding/#itemlist", "name": "1 Awful Thing Quotes By Paul Harding", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Paul Harding" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-harding/what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in-our-house-together-with-our/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so…” — Paul Harding", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful-thing/paul-harding/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful-thing/paul-harding/", "name": "Awful Thing Quotes by Paul Harding", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/awful-thing/paul-harding/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/645/paul-harding-11330_awful_what-an-awful-thing-then-being-there-in_412817.png" }, "description": "1 Awful Thing quotes by Paul Harding. 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