The Highlander's Last Song Quotes

“Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.”
― George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine

“...for a man must leave father and mother to cleave to his wife - a principle commonly inverted by male presumption.”
― George MacDonald, The Highlander's Last Song

“Belief that is not lived by is no belief at all, for belief involves what we do more than it does ideas.”
― George MacDonald, The Highlander's Last Song

“No one can be living a true life to whom dying is a terror.”
― George MacDonald, The Highlander's Last Song

“It is a good thing to desire to share a good thing, but it is not well to be unable alone to enjoy a good thing. It is our enjoyment that should make us desirous to share. What is there to share if the thing be of no value in itself? To enjoy alone is to be able to share. No participation can make that of value which in itself is of none. It”
― George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine — Complete