Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey. But, sorrow is at least an arriving.
ALAN PATONIt is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
More Alan Paton Quotes
-
-
Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
ALAN PATON -
Then some unknown rebellion brewed in you, doing harm to you, though how I do not understand.
ALAN PATON -
Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.
ALAN PATON -
Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON -
There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices.
ALAN PATON -
But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.
ALAN PATON -
Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction.
ALAN PATON -
But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.
ALAN PATON -
People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
ALAN PATON -
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn’t concern the central issues, it wouldn’t be worth publishing.
ALAN PATON -
The Judge does not make the law. It is people that make the law.
ALAN PATON -
But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
ALAN PATON -
In the deserted harbour there is yet water that laps against the quays. In the dark and silent forest, there is a leaf that falls.
ALAN PATON -
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
ALAN PATON -
For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
ALAN PATON