Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISONSilence is the garment of light.
More Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes
-
-
Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
If there is one lesson Rome teaches, it is that matter is good; in Rome the holy and the homely rise and converge.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
There is something worse than dying, and that is humiliation – at least so it seemed to me.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
the islands of Italy combine all the elements – fire, water, earth, and air – and that is irresistible.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
To sleep is an act of faith.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Food is my drug of choice.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Silence is the garment of light.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
[On Werner Erhard, founder of est:] If I wanted a new belief system, I’d choose to believe in God – He’s been in business longer than Werner, and He has better music.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON -
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.
BARBARA GRIZZUTI HARRISON