Fantasy-scifi Quote by Michelle Frost

“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.”

— Ken Follett

“somber-looking monks. They sipped a watery soup from wooden spoons. No one spoke. The abbot pointed to a lone table against the far”

— Anonymous

“At night a hooded monk passed by where there were no lamps. I could not see his face. I only heard these words he…

— St Teresa of Avila

“...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...”

— John Geddes

“Being a monk was the strangest and most perverted way of life imaginable. Monks spent half their lives putting themselves through pain and discomfort…

— Ken Follett

“But you're a monk!”

— Van Helsing

“The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“For two years I’ve been a monk but the only monastery I’ve lived in is my own mind.”

— Bhiksus Heng Sure, Heng Ch’au

“It might have been the entrance to some holy place, so strange and solemn was the quiet; and looking from out of its shadows…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“He, Cromwell, says to his visitors, just tell them this, and tell them loud: to each monk, one bed: to each bed, one monk.…

— Hilary Mantel

“if monasteries accepted the irreligious and permitted abstention from prayer, I'd become a monk.”

— Henri Troyat

“Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose…

— E.M. Forster