White hair Quote by Hugh MacLennan

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

— 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

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

— Hugh MacLennan

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

— 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 the twilight…

— Hugh MacLennan

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

— Hugh MacLennan

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

— Hugh MacLennan