A Delicate Balance Quotes

“Everything becomes... too late, finally. You know it's going on... up on the hill; you can see the dust, and hear the cries, and the steel... but you wait; and time happens. When you do go, sword, shield... finally... there's nothing there... save rust; bones; and the wind.”
― Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

“It's sad to know you've gone through it all, or most of it, without… that the one body you'v wrapped your arms around, the only skin you've ever known, is your own… and that's it's dry, and not warm.”
― Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

“Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief.”
― Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

“we must have that put in Latin—We do what we can—on”
― Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

“It was like being lost: very young again, with the dark, and lost. There was no . . . thing . . . to be . . . frightened of, but . . .
We were frightened . . . And there was nothing.”
― Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance