Morris West Quotes

• If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

  Morris West

  Happiness, Summer, Christian

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the Love and the courage to pay the price. One has to abandon altogether the search for security and reach out to the risks of living with both arms. One has to embrace life.

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  Pay The Price, Risk, Cost

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• One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

  Morris West

  Life, Wisdom, Pain

  Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”

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• Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.

  Morris West

  Relationship, Forever, Accepting

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

  Morris West

  Vices, Corruption, Institutions

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• None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.

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  Nature, World, Kind

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• I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.

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  Nature, Thinking, Bird

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• You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

  Morris West

  Wisdom, Art, Perfection

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• In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked.

  Morris West

  Book, Writing, And Love

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• If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

  Morris West

  Truth, Men, Divine

  "The Heretic". Play by Morris West, 1968.

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• Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

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  Spiritual, Wall, Men

  Morris L. West (1993). “Three complete novels”, Outlet

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• No man - prince, peasant, pope - has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in debate, and to be wrong a thousand times to reach a single rightness. It is that liberty they fear. They want us to be driven to God like sheep, not running to him like lovers, shouting joy!

  Morris West

  Running, Men, Sheep

  "The Heretic" by Morris West, 1968.

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• There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.

  Morris West

  Past, Men, Light

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• The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

  Morris West

  Art, Voice, Long

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• He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

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  Men, Errors, Reform

  Morris West (1977). “The devil's advocate ; The second victory ; Daughter of silence ; The salamander ; The shoes of the fisherman”

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• And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

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  Wisdom, Art, Writing

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• Well I travelled quite a lot in the east, and one of the things that impressed me greatly was the buddhist notion of the continuity of things, the wheel of life which is what we're talking about, the ever turning wheel.

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  Buddhist, Talking, Continuity Of Life

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• There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

  Morris West

  Letting Go, Hands, Want

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