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Quotes from The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories — Bessie Head

1937–1986 South Africa

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Above all the necessities of life, human beings need love and it is often the one thing most denied to them.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

The only reason why I always admit pain is that it seems the only constructive emotion.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

Do you think life will care about you if you do not show that you care about it?

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

There's only one way to make yourself shock-proof. Do not be impressed by evil and do not be impressed by good.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

Life is not in bits and pieces. It is a magnificent, rhythmic, pulsating symphony.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

Once a man involves himself with women there's always some kind of retribution. They're the most vengeful creatures on this earth.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

You have a beautiful soul that was nurtured on a dung heap.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

Life is a treacherous quicksand with no guarantee of safety anywhere. We can only try to grab what happiness we can before we are swept off into oblivion.

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

The body is a positive thing, and love without a body is negative, useless, purposeless. [Where is the Hour of the Beautiful Dancing of Birds in the Sun-wind?

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

A basically timid and cowardly person dare not presume to speak for others. He can only speak for himself. [A Personal View of the Survival of the Unfittest

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

A woman is a maker of pottery, feeling life with her hands, keeping it whole, moulding it from the depths upwards. Her vision is constant, unchanging. [Where is the Hour of the Beautiful Dancing of Birds in the Sun-wind?

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

There were once highway robbers, who said: 'Your money or your life!' Today, they say: 'Your politics or your life!' [A Personal View of the Survival of the Unfittest

The Cardinals. With Meditations and Short Stories (1993)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bessie Head (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.