Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONForgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
ALAN PATONThe only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
ALAN PATONbecause life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie.
ALAN PATONSorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONIt is not “forgive and forget” as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but “forgive and go forward,
ALAN PATONShe taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.
ALAN PATONAnd whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be.
ALAN PATONSomething deep is touched here, something that is good and deep.
ALAN PATONI couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
ALAN PATONAnd money is not something to go mad about …
ALAN PATONWhat broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?
ALAN PATONThe tragedy is not that things are broken.
ALAN PATONHappy the eyes that can close
ALAN PATONIt was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.
ALAN PATONIf you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATONThe Afrikaner has nowhere to go, and thats why he would rather destroy himself than capitulate.
ALAN PATON