Oh Pure And Radiant Heart Quotes

“It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“…suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“...that was the only function of music, to convey either nostalgia or longing, the same emotion in different tenses.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Maybe it was not fear of death that motivated the people who were most alive, she thought, but some other force, say a capacity for delight.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart

“He said to me once: it is the mind that made the bombs that is killing the world. For that purpose the bombs are not needed.”
― Lydia Millet, Oh Pure And Radiant Heart