Daniel Kemp > Quotes

“There is nothing as complicated as the truth”
― Daniel Kemp, Why A Complicated Love

“If you ever reach that stage in life where you really couldn't give a toss about what others think of you, then you have achieved freedom.”
― Daniel Kemp

“There is nothing as dangerous as a democracy
when the government can’t afford to be
because all are poor and living in poverty”
― Daniel Kemp

“Have you noticed that the world is made up of people who never get noticed? However, without them, those who do get noticed would never be noticed. They would become people who would never be noticed.
I hope you take notice of this.”
― Daniel Kemp, Why A Complicated Love

“If you write you may be read and if you read you may understand,
but if you understand you will never write.

© 2018 Danny Kemp All rights reserved”
― Daniel Kemp, What Happened in Vienna, Jack?

“If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but it's left on its own it means nothing. If it’s joined by another word it could start to gather momentum. Now if several words are placed together creating meaning and then sprinkled with soul one could have developed purpose. Look into that purpose and you may find the writer.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Some people work for the money they can earn doing what they do. Others work because of a love of what they do. Writers work because they don’t understand what they do and hope someone might tell them.”
― Daniel Kemp

“When love leaves a scar on your heart rejoice for you are one with life. When love leaves you without a trace of ever being yours then that was never love. Rejoice in the fact you have seen love’s imitation. Real love is yet to show its face.

Your life is not yours to give. Your life lives only in the person you gave your love to. But remember this—if your love is rejected so is your life rejected, but your life was not rejected by you. It was rejected by your love.


Sorrow can be tearful,
Never easy to explain.
We bear it individually,
Suffering without shame.

© 2022, Daniel Kemp. All rights reserved.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Story That Had No Beginning

“If life is the greatest gift of all then death is its most grateful recipient.

© 2019, Daniel Kemp All rights reserved”
― Daniel Kemp

“Whatever you do do it with style.”
― Daniel Kemp, What Happened in Vienna, Jack?

“One could use a pen to write a story, but it's a heart that bleeds the words.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Never waste words. They are too precious to waste.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Libraries are the soul of a nation and books are the hearts that beat within

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― Daniel Kemp

“To have one book published is an achievement somewhat similar to have climbed a mountain, but after a while it seems as though you are walking the street with only one shoe on your feet. To have two books published balances your step and the thought of stopping with that one satisfies your ambition, unless the unsatiable
desire to tell stories is too strong to stop, until--but is there ever an until?”
― Daniel Kemp, Why A Complicated Love

“The unattainable can never be measured.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“Words have no owners.

Silently they float disguised as thoughts waiting for a home, then if they find a receptive mind they grow, becoming a painting of so many colours that once put together correctly they become a masterpiece that brings joy to all.



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― Daniel Kemp

“Cemeteries are full of bodies that despair has enslaved.”
― Daniel Kemp

“I wrote an article two days ago trying to explain insanity in simple language, in fact, that was indeed the title: Insanity Explained In Simple Language.

I received a letter yesterday asking me for more information on the subject. I do so enjoy interacting with the general public, especially ones who ask complicated questions. This person a lady, whose name shall remain anonymous, asked–

“If sanity is the simple state of mind one feels whilst one’s life is suspended in an insane space as you purport, how can one tell if the space one finds oneself in is insane or not?

Yours faithfully,

One, In Disguise.

I wrote this as my explanation——-

The only way to tell if the space you’re in is insane or not is to test your own sanity. It is my belief you will need four things to test for any debilitating state of affairs in your surroundings. Firstly, you will need; you. Next, someone who is definitely insane. Of course, then comes someone who is sane, and finally, a pencil and paper. That’s five things I know but who’s splitting hairs over a pencil and paper? Not me. I haven’t enough paper to split.

I will stop digressing. I suggest I am the one you invite to fill the third category, the being sane one, but only if you’re
testing for sanity on a day with the letter N in it.

If the day of your choice has not the letter ’N,’ then I cannot help but feel sorry for you. However, in that case my intuitive nature compels me to propose I fill the second category for your cause, leaving you to find someone who is sane.

Good luck with that last one and God Save The King. That’s if he has any time left on the throne.

DK.

© 2022, Daniel Kemp. All rights reserved.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Widow's Son

“The value of any written work should not simply be judged on the words that can be read. It should also be judged on the memories it leaves in the heart.”
― Daniel Kemp

“In order to criticise all one needs is a pen.
Fault can be found everywhere one looks if that is what one wants to find.
Beauty hides its face from criticism because it knows that those who seek to find fault will find it in her.
To withstand criticism and to write, needs a heart, not a pen.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Despite the fact that nothing complicates the truth as much as a lie, if the truth is as obvious as it is
inescapable, then the fabrication of its banality could be viewed as an act of benevolence.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Despite the fact that nothing complicates the truth as much as a lie, if the truth is as obvious as it is inescapable, then the fabrication of its banality could be viewed as an act of benevolence.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Your life is not yours to give. Your life lives only in the person you gave your love to. But remember this—if your love is rejected so is your life rejected, but your life was not rejected by you. It was rejected by your love.


Sorrow can be tearful,
Never easy to explain.
We bear it individually,
Suffering without shame.

© 2022, Daniel Kemp. All rights reserved.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Story That Had No Beginning

“Imagination lives within those that are different. Silence lives with those that are wise. Wisdom and imagination are the same.”
― Daniel Kemp, Why A Complicated Love

“A good thriller should have a captivating beginning, an engrossing middle and a dynamic ending.
A great book would have all three but tell a story that sets the reader on edge as he or she listens to the heartbeat of the writer.

© 2018, Danny Kemp All rights reserved.”
― Daniel Kemp

“Let your curiosity be the key to your imagination.”
― Daniel Kemp, The Desolate Garden

“The soul of a writer is constantly troubled. It can only be stilled when it reaches the end.
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― Daniel Kemp

“Ageing is the ultimate death.”
― Daniel Kemp

“It's when you stop believing your imagination that your fear can become your reality.”
― Daniel Kemp, A Covenant Of Spies

“A Word

If one adds a word to a blank sheet of paper but leaves it on its own it means nothing. If it’s joined by another word it could start to gather momentum. Now if several words are placed together creating meaning and then sprinkled with soul one could have developed purpose. Look into that purpose and you may find the writer.

© 2017 Danny Kemp All rights reserved”
― Daniel Kemp, What Happened in Vienna, Jack?