Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life. — Jessamyn West Book Copy Share Image
Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is… — Jessamyn West Choice Copy Share Image
If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility. — Jessamyn West Ecstasy Copy Share Image
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the… — Jessamyn West Humor Copy Share Image
Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. — Jessamyn West Chance Copy Share Image
Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact… — Jessamyn West Aging Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then… — Jessamyn West Death Copy Share Image
