The Sight and Fell Quotes

“know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“the masculine and the feminine? What is one without the other, for how else would the world exist? But each one contains elements of the other too. So use your power, but when others are too strong, be soft; when softness loses vigour, be strong.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“The secret is that nothing knows, the secret is that all life flows, the secret is that thoughts and hearts are different beings, split apart.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“Children can be too hard on their parents, until they learn themselves how hard life can be.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“it’s bad for you to hold in your feelings too much. You’ve a right to them.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“Must we not protect children with all we are? And so the future.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“Once more we shall raise our heads high, for is it not better to live standing tall, than to die on your knees?”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“they say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“For man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“Because in all my own searching, I know now what the true meaning and purpose of life is. It is to be happy. To feel joy. That is why evil will always conquer itself in time.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“It’s those that fight hardest for freedom who are never free.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“Why did death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater than we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell

“But why do adults, why do parents not realise that children desperately wish to do things not so much out of duty, but out of love? And you can’t force anything to love anything else against its nature.”
― David Clement-Davies, The Sight and Fell