"Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I……" — P L Travers
"Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written."
—
P L Travers
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
22 Quotes by P L Travers
P L Travers has 22 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.
-
For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I…
-
Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?
-
And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and…
-
Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.
-
More and more I’ve become convinced that the great treasure to possess is the unknown.
-
The same substance composes us--the tree overhead, the stone beneath us, the bird, the beast, the star--we are all one,…
-
If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.
-
Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?
-
A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the…
-
Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied.…
-
Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.
See all 22 quotes by P L Travers »
More Behind Quotes
This quote is filed under Behind Quotes,
one of 6,713 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies…
— David Arquette
-
I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
-
You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come…
— Margaret Atwood
-
For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.
— Irving Babbitt
-
Basically no, I mean I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to…
— Lester Bangs
-
I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors.
— Stephen Baldwin
-
I don't get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects…
— Christian Bale
-
Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
— Honore de Balzac
-
I'm not such a big star. I am just a little planet. In Spain, people don't put so much attention…
— Antonio Banderas
-
I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We…
— Javier Bardem
-
All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves.
— Amelia Barr
See all 6,713 Behind Quotes »