“Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
“Timidity keeps me safe and sad in a narrow room.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Eighth Selection (1991)
“Keep what you hold in your heart safe and strong.”
Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer
“Keep this safe, it is my whole life.”
Charlotte Salomon (1917–1943) German painter
Quote of Charlotte Salomon, 1943; as cited on Wikipedia, English
as the Nazis intensified their search for Jews living in the South of France in 1943, she handed the 769 paintings on paper over to a trusted friend with these words
“But if you didn't believe in monsters, then how were you going to be able to keep safe from them?”
Holly Black book The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Source: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
Jim Barenson, Prologue, p. xv-xvi
2000s, The Guardian (2003)
“We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.”
Taisen Deshimaru (1914–1982) Japanese Buddhist monk
As quoted in Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World (2002) by Brenda Shoshanna, p. 80