Adele Kenny > Adele's Quotes

“We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.”
― Irving Townsend

“If you believe it, it is.”
― Adele Kenny, A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems

“Whatever we came for isn't here, only remember or wish, if we think in those terms—and nothing to keep us (no token, no resemblance of things), nothing to carry home.”
― Adele Kenny, A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems

“What never happened will never change."
(from "Oh, Leonardo")”
― Adele Kenny, A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems

“Suddenly (like walking into a light you know) you discover this: the certainty that nothing is certain, the deep relief of your own incredible smallness."
(From "Even If You Could Explain It Completely")”
― Adele Kenny, A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems

“The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.”
― Julian of Norwich

“Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.
We must always remember this.
The actual words matter less.”
― Pope John XXIII