Mark Helprin Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.

  Mark Helprin

  Life, Sleep, Years

  Mark Helprin (1989). “Winter's Tale”, Pocket Books

• There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

  Mark Helprin

  Lakes, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life; the perfectly blue days that have begun and ended in golden dimness continue, immobile and accessible; and, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Blue, Lost Ones

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.415, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Sight, Cities

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.337, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Why do people resist [engines, bridges, and cities] so? They are symbols and products of the imagination, which is the force that ensures justice and historical momentum in an imperfect world, because without imagination we would not have the wherewithal to challenge certainty, and we could never rise above ourselves.

  Mark Helprin

  Imperfect World, Bridges, Cities

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.555, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

  Mark Helprin

  Fighting, Justice, World

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.288, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long enough to recognize the decisive thunder of its occurrence, that it can be manifest within a generation, within ten generations, within the entire span of human existence? What you are talking about is common sense, not justice. Justice is higher and not as easy to understand - until it presents itself in unmistakable splendor. The design of which I speak is far above our understanding. But we can sometimes feel its presence.

  Mark Helprin

  Talking, Long, Common Sense

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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