"I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but……" — Sarah Waters
"I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded."
—
Sarah Waters
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
37 Quotes by Sarah Waters
Sarah Waters has 37 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.
-
I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might…
-
For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of…
-
I barely knew I had skin before I met you.
-
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling…
-
Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the…
-
We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself…
-
She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of…
-
All unwillingly I opened my eyes - then I opened them wider, and lifted my head. The heat, my weariness,…
-
And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As when one adds salt…
-
Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?
-
It's a curious, wanting thing.
See all 37 quotes by Sarah Waters »
More Awfulness Quotes
This quote is filed under Awfulness Quotes,
one of 19 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.
— Louise Doughty
-
I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor.…
— Susan Hayward
-
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to…
— Patrick Warburton
-
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of…
— Lynda Barry
-
A person should go out on the water on a fine day to a small distance from a beautiful coast,…
— Augustus William Hare
-
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you…
— Elizabeth McCracken
-
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
— Peter De Vries
-
In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
-
Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than…
— Desmond Tutu
-
Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of…
— Marisha Pessl
-
This boy has negative charisma. He walks into a room and the oxygen starts to evaporate. I guess that's why…
— Emma Forrest
-
. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of…
— John Boyne
See all 19 Awfulness Quotes »