Universe Quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

20 Universe quotes by Madeleine L'Engle

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L'Engle’s lyrical voice turns the cosmos into a canvas of possibility. Across 20 quotes, she balances wonder with a gentle moral compass, inviting readers to see the stars as both mystery and guide.

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When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

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Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

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“Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.”

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A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

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It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.

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A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry…

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My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful…

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I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind…

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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…

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I believe that good questions are more important than answers, and the best children's books ask questions, and make the readers ask…

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Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that…

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When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth…

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I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is…

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As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe…

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A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a…

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There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us…

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Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent;…

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The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a…

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The earth will never be the same again Rock, water, tree, iron, share this greif As distant stars participate in the pain.…

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What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by…

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On the other side of pain, there is still love.

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“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.”

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“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her…

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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my…

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My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said…

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If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.

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