Best James Branch Cabell Quotes
- For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… All
- But with man the case is otherwise, in that when logic leads to any humiliating conclusion, the sole effect is to discredit logic. Any
- The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules. Club
- Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? All
- I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is… Common
- Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a… Awaken
- The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting… End
- Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed. Appointed
- What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that… All
- Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood. Accessible
- There is no gift more great than love. Gift
- Patriotism is the religion of hell. Hell
- The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. All
- Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all… All