Hugh MacLennan

But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Happiness annihilates time.”

— Hugh MacLennan

The Socialists can scheme their schemes and the Liberals can dream their dreams, but we, at least, have work to do.

— Hugh MacLennan

The farmer's way of saving money: to be owed by someone he trusted.

— Hugh MacLennan

In comparison with a loving human being, everything else is worthless.

— Hugh MacLennan

“Timothy's eyes followed the straight back, the high shoulders, and the crisp white hair out of the door and out of his…

— Hugh MacLennan

“This campus was an island of quiet in the city's roar, and at night it was an island of dark in the…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Marx is only half right when he calls religion the opium of the people. It may turn a lot of people into…

— Hugh MacLennan

Love, sought as an escape from the burden of the self, turns rapidly into a captivity.

— Hugh MacLennan

“Death suddenly seemed unimportant and life seemed everything”

— Hugh MacLennan

Man is a thinking animal, a talking animal, a toolmaking animal, a building animal, a political animal, a fantasizing animal. But, in…

— Hugh MacLennan

“There is no simple explanation for anything important any of us do, and the human tragedy, or the human irony, consists in…

— Hugh MacLennan

“It was as though the whole world was thrown back six or seven hundred years without having the organizations those ancient peoples…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved…

— Hugh MacLennan

“He sat down again. He wanted her body, even though there were plenty of other bodies he could have. Which meant, I…

— Hugh MacLennan

The Greeks, who knew everything, understood that without the orgy there is no middle ground between bedlam and Toronto ... we need…

— Hugh MacLennan

“Now, Dr. Anderson, you've been telling us how the world began and how brilliant it was of all the scientists to be…

— Hugh MacLennan