All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image… Created
- I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as… Abortion
- I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. Day
- We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing… Been
- Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this… Begin
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.… All
- I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic… Any
- Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. Dark
- I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. Best
- A God you understood would be less than yourself. God
- The dead don't bother with particulars. Bother
- Kindness and patience were always called for ... Always Called
- There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that… Average
- I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying where… Character
- I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the… Believer
- A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say… Abstract
- Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when he can't see… Altogether
- You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. Christ
- Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, Children
- I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. Burdened
- Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. Anyone
- To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Bitterness
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a… Asked
- Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Conviction
- It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Better