Josephine Hart

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

— Josephine Hart

We do have choice, but not without some agony.

— Josephine Hart

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays…

— Josephine Hart

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

— Josephine Hart

“What really makes us is beyond grasping. It's way beyond knowing. We give in to love... because it gives us some sense…

— Josephine Hart

“She was the split-second experience that changes everything.; the car smash; the letter we shouldn't have opened; the lump in the breast…

— Josephine Hart

“There is an internal landscape, a geography of the soul: we search for its outlines all over our lives. Those who are…

— Josephine Hart

We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days…

— Josephine Hart

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outline all our lives.

— Josephine Hart

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

— Josephine Hart

Our sanity depends essentially on a narrowness of vision--the ability to select the elements vital to survival, while ignoring the great truths.

— Josephine Hart

“We learn from tragedy. Slowly.”

— Josephine Hart

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

— Josephine Hart

“There was a full moon in the starless sky. I thought how rarely I had noticed such things. Some deep failure of…

— Josephine Hart

Those who do not have imaginary conversations do not love.

— Josephine Hart

Very odd, old age. Always knew it would happen, if I was lucky. I just didn't expect it so soon.

— Josephine Hart

Memory is never pure. And recollection is always coloured by the life lived since

— Josephine Hart

Television ... the new gladiatorial arena.

— Josephine Hart

They say that childhood forms us, that those early influences are the key to everything. Is the peace of the soul so…

— Josephine Hart

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as…

— Josephine Hart

My mother insured that a life of petty facts and dutiful farming was kept at bay by her passionate intensity, which nurtured…

— Josephine Hart

For why trap what is already trapped? It is only in flight that we know the freedom of the bird

— Josephine Hart

Poetry has never let me down. Without poetry, I would have found life less comprehensible, less bearable and infinitely less enjoyable.

— Josephine Hart

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good…

— Josephine Hart

“When we mourn those who die young – those who have been robbed of time – we weep for lost joys. We…

— Josephine Hart