Mark Helprin Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Mark Helprin
Mark Helprin Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Mark Helprin on Wise Famous Quotes.
They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
I'm not afraid," Rafi said.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
"Why not?"
"If I die tomorrow it will have been useless to have been afraid today.
What a place to put a city, right on the front line of absolute zero. No wonder a cow burned it down.
You can't do anything absolutely by reason. That's because reason depends on postulates. Postulates defy proof and yet they are essential to reason.
Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.
Life is so quick that it's all played out at the gates of death, and the value of resolution is that it quickens life.
I wanted the music to be full, to surround us, to lift us like the swell, so I rented a bloody orchestra. You only live once.
Time however can be easily overcome; not by chasing the light, but by standing back far enough to see it all at once.
This marvelous graceful thing, this joy of physics, this perfect balance between rebellion and obedience, is God's own signature on earth.
No one knows better than I that it's all here, and need not be explained or interpreted - just seized.
If when she is aged you cannot see in the eyes of a woman the youth she was at eighteen, then it is not she that is old but you that are blind.
All great discoveries ... are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.
They're not just dreams. Not anymore, I dream more than I wake now, and, at times, I have crossed over. Can't you see? I've been there.
He felt as if he were paying for the privilege of music with portions of his life and body. But it was well worth it.
Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living.
Accident is as much a part of fiction as anything else, symbolic of the grace that, along with will, conspires to put words on the page.
but, as we know, even when the silver wears away and you're left with copper, if you attend to it every day it has a gleam all its own.
Their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.
The room, as she saw it, was a web of motion, a symphony of mischievou dancing particles quite like the smooth and placid notes of a fine concerto.
It was easy to argue with Quagliagliarello, if you had patience, and if you could pronounce his name.
Her eyes showed that though she may have decided to regret him, as long as he was in her presence she could not.
He heard the Baymen tell of war, but they never said it could be harnessed, its head held down, and made to run in place.
What I did with his automobile was fairly dramatic and somewhat risky, but still a lot easier than finding a parking place on the Upper East Side.
In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.
Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.
One of the things I worked very hard on all my life was to be like everyone else. I tried very hard to fit in.
He wanted actually to live inside the dream that captured his eye, to spend his days and nights in a fume of burnished gold.
The best thing to do was to stop it while he still could, since it was something that would lead nowhere, painfully.
When soldiers go home, their first desire, whether they know it or not, is to have children, children being the only antidote for war.
In living, one muddles through the years for the sake of those one or two moments which are indisputably great.
They knew that to survive in Manhattan he would have to know something of bitterness before he arrived.
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
Anticipation is the heart of wisdom. If you are going to cross a desert, you anticipate that you will be thirsty, and you take water.
Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.
Many people just like to show that they're thinking the right thoughts. And as the 'right' thoughts change like the wind, so do they.
I was brought up,' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.
Because I don't need oxygen. I've already come to all my conclusions. I'm just slowly gliding down. Someday I'll be as light as a feather.
Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though
I didn't know the world could be like this ... I've never seen the sky in such a passion of kindness.
I have jumped out of airplanes but I was not technically a paratrooper. I was an infantryman and a night fighter, anti-terrorist.
She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.