All Mark Helprin Quotes
- He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it. Body
- Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye. Eye
- Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… Alone
- Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment. All
- She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of… Been
- A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People… Afraid
- ...to be paid for one's joy is to steal. Inspirational
- All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life;… Accessible
- Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you… Changed
- I'm not afraid," Rafi said. "Why not?" "If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today. Afraid
- As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them… Clockwork
- As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing. Always Manages
- Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends,… Always Done
- A good river is nature's life work in song. Good
- Why do you think great leaders and great orations are coincident with wars, revolutions, and the founding or ending of governments and states? Common interests… Both
- You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only… Architecture
- To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is… Act
- We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to… Any
- He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… Absence
- The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had… Book