The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The world has been abnormal for so long that we've forgotten what it's like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate.… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Life is not easy and comfortable, with nothing ever going wrong as long as you buy the right product. It's not true… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. .… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
