Philip Pullman Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...

  Philip Pullman

  Fate, Forever, Feelings

  "Northern Lights/The Golden Compass". Book by Philip Pullman, 1995.

• Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

  Philip Pullman

  Fighting, Giving, Feelings

  Philip Pullman (2007). “The subtle knife”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

• I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That is what the Church does, and every church is the same: control, destroy, obliterate every good feeling.

  Philip Pullman

  Fighting, Feelings, Church

• We feel cold, but we don't mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn't feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It's worth being cold for that.

  Philip Pullman

  Stars, Winter, Feelings

• But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape you don't like? Well, then, you're discontented, en't you? There's plenty of folk as'd like to have a lion as a dæmon and they end up with a poodle. And till they learn to be satisfied with what they are, they're going to be fretful about it. Waste of feeling, that is. But it didn't seem to Lyra that she would ever grow up.

  Philip Pullman

  Growing Up, Feelings, Lions

  Philip Pullman (2015). “His Dark Materials: The Complete Trilogy”, p.121, Random House

• She found out that having something to do prevented you from feeling seasick, and that even a job like scrubbing a deck could be satisfying, if it was done in a seamanlike way. She was very taken with this notion, and later on she folded the blankets on her bunk in a seamanlike way, and put her possessions in the closet in a seamanlike way, and used 'stow' instead of 'tidy' for the process of doing so. After two days at sea, Lyra decided that this was the life for her.

  Philip Pullman

  Inspirational, Funny, Jobs

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