"What a magical thing is the bed, and……" — Michael Leunig
"What a magical thing is the bed, and what a vulnerable, innocent creature is the sleeping human - the human who never looks more truthful or pitiful or benign; the curled-up, childlike dreaming soul who has for a few hours become an angel adrift."
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Michael Leunig
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108 Quotes by Michael Leunig
Michael Leunig has 108 quotes on this site.
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If European symbols and traditions have grown tired, perfunctory and oppressively banal in Australia, or been drained of spirit and…
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There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed."…
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
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Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and…
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Sometimes I wonder if the semi-conscious agenda of the media is to get between people and their souls. It is…
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There is some suffering that awaits us all.
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The cartoonist’s task is not so much to be balanced as to give balance, particularly in situations of disproportionate power…
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God bless this tiny little boat, And me who travels in it. It stays afloat for years and years, And…
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At the very simplest, I think as Van Gogh said and St Francis would have said, we must find nature.…
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For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something…
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I didn't mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit.
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Ah, whimsical. It's terrible the way words get attached to you like barnacles. As is what I do is acting…
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More Adrift Quotes
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Tell us what it is to be a woman so that we may know what it is to be a…
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[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing…
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Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live.
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Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege…
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Men are beginning to realize that they are not individuals but persons in society, that man alone is weak and…
— Dorothy Day
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Either order in the cosmos is real, or all is chaos. If we are adrift in chaos, then the fragile…
— Russell Kirk
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A sign that a peace association is going adrift is its exclusion of other political parties, with whom it could…
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Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways - in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters. More…
— Brian D. McLaren
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True individualists are always at odds with the universe. Set adrift by their peculiar tastes and interests, they spend their…
— Rick Bayan
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With spirit we are all children of the cosmos; Without it we are orphaned and adrift.
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I find myself regarding existence as though from beyond the tomb, from another world; all is strange to me; I…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Just as at sea those who are carried away from the direction of the harbor bring themselves back on course…
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