P. D. James: Quotes about life

P. D. James was English crime writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.”

P. D. James

A Taste for Death Published 1986. Page 373.
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Life , Autumn , Memory , Perfection

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of time, and to understand this is as close as we can get to eternal life.”

P. D. James book The Children of Men

The Children of Men (1992)

Life , Understanding , Time

“Marriage is both the most public and the most secret of institutions, its miseries as irritatingly insistent as a hacking cough, its private malaise less easily diagnosed. And nothing is so destructive as unhappiness to social life. No one wants to sit in embarrassed silence while his host and hostess demonstrate their mutual incompatibility and dislike.”

P. D. James

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2017, p. 133
Sleep no more: Six Murderous Tales, published posthumously in 2017

Marriage , Silence , Secret , Life