“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
The Weight of Glory (1949)
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Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist 1898–1963Related quotes
“Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.”
Stephen King book Hearts in Atlantis
Source: Hearts in Atlantis
“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
G. K. Chesterton book Tremendous Trifles
Tremendous Trifles (1909), Ch. 1.
“A horn of plenty
spills from your hands into the
starved lives of millions.”
Aberjhani (1957) author
(haiku from poem Notes for an Elegy in the Key of Michael).
From Articles, Essays, and Poems, On Michael Jackson
“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
Kurt Vonnegut book A Man Without a Country
A Man Without a Country (2005)
Context: Socialism is no more an evil word than Christianity. Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve.
