I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
“Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!” — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an… — Flannery O'Connor Atheist Copy Share Image
“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her… — Flannery O'Connor Good woman Copy Share Image
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. — Flannery O'Connor Dramatic Copy Share Image
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor Innocence Copy Share Image
If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. — Flannery O'Connor Animal Copy Share Image
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. — Flannery O'Connor Men Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Formality Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Blank Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Dust Copy Share Image
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do… — Flannery O'Connor Biographies Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor Every step Copy Share Image
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him… — Flannery O'Connor 1956 Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other… — Flannery O'Connor Firsts Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Balance Copy Share Image
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists… — Flannery O'Connor Be prepared Copy Share Image
“He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying… — Flannery O'Connor Holy ghost Copy Share Image
“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like… — Flannery O'Connor Friendship Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good… — Flannery O'Connor Fun Copy Share Image
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Certain Copy Share Image
“Unless we are willing to accept our artists as they are, the answer to the question, "Who speaks for America today?" will… — Flannery O'Connor America today Copy Share Image
“The road looked as if no one had traveled on it in months. "It's not much farther," the grandmother said and just… — Flannery O'Connor Old lady Copy Share Image
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and… — Flannery O'Connor Compassion Copy Share Image
“The highway was ragged with filling stations and trailer camps and roadhouses. After a while, there were stretches where red gulleys dropped… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“About hope, I am somewhat at a loss. It is so easy to say I hope to—the tongue slides over it. I… — Flannery O'Connor Dear god Copy Share Image
“Week before last I went to Wesleyan and read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” After it I went to one… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
![“[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility . . .” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/78d/flannery-o-connor-639_firsts_to-know-oneself-is-above-all-to-know-wha_1930035.jpg)
![“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?" "It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b1d/flannery-o-connor-639_friendship_listen-friends-said-the-disciple-confide_2412204.jpg)
![“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/225/flannery-o-connor-639_books_people-without-hope-do-not-write-novels_903687.jpg)
