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. JamesBut what do you believe? I don't just mean religion. What are you sure of?"
"That once I was not and that now I am. That one day I shall no longer be.
I love the idea of bringing order out of disorder which is what the mystery is about. I like the way in which it affirms the sanity of human life and exorcises irrational guilts.
P.D. JamesDaniel supposed he had a secret life. Most people did; it was hardly possible to live without one.
P.D. JamesTags: life psychology secret mystery mask
The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.
P.D. JamesPerhaps it's only when people are dead that we can safely show how much we cared about them. We know that it's too late then for them to do anything about it.
P.D. JamesIt was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
P.D. JamesTags: seasons fall autumn weather england
What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
P.D. JamesIt is difficult to be generous-minded to those we have greatly harmed.
P.D. JamesTags: human-nature forgiveness grudge
Children live in occupied territory. The brave and the foolhardy openly rebel against authority, whether harsh or benign. But most tread warily, outwardly accommodating themselves to alien mores and edicts while living in secret their iconoclastic and subversive lives.
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