Perhaps Quotes

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad.

Grey is not an attractive colour, but perhaps it is the one that describes the world most accurately.

If the relationship sought proves to be real, the rings in the trunks of trees give us not only a means of studying climatic changes through long periods of years, but perhaps also of tracing changes in solar activity during the same time.

Perhaps I’m not a good actor, but I would be even worse at doing anything else.

It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.

Then they will see that, perhaps, they too have some of the same fault in themselves – although perhaps it does not come out in the same way – and then they must try to conquer that fault.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase ‘freedom of the press’ used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We’re tired of drudging and sleeping and dying.