
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Source: Brisingr
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Standing Outside the Fire, written by Jenny Yates and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, In Pieces (1993)
“A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.”
“All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it.”
Source: Life Itself : A Memoir (2011), Ch. 55 : Go Gently
Context: Raised as a Roman Catholic, I internalized the social values of that faith and still hold most of them, even though its theology no longer persuades me. I have no quarrel with what anyone else subscribes to; everyone deals with these things in his own way, and I have no truths to impart. All I require of a religion is that it be tolerant of those who do not agree with it. I know a priest whose eyes twinkle when he says, “You go about God’s work in your way, and I’ll go about it in His.”
“What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.”
Source: The Outsider (1956), Chapter one, The Country of the Blind