"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness……" — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one."
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166 Quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Anne Morrow Lindbergh has 166 quotes on this site.
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In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle,…
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Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .
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Only when a tree has fallen can you take the measure of it. It is the same with a man.
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So many things we love are you!
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Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations…
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Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work.
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One learns first of all in beach living the art of shedding; how little one can get along with, not…
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...the only continuity possible in life, as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom. The only real…
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Love is a force.... It is not a result; it is a cause. It is not a product; it produces.
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Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst…
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Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is…
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A horrible sense of blackness and the treachery of fate seized hold upon the soul of the unhappy student.
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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he…
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Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us…
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Blackness is a state of mind and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when…
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It was a texture. The blackness was so intense.
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I am a black man dedicated to expression; expression of the joy and pride of blackness. I consider myself neither…
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I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
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My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before.
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I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It…
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