Peter S. Beagle Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Peter S. Beagle
Peter S. Beagle Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A rhinoceros is as ugly as a human being, and it too is going to die, but at least it never thinks that it is beautiful.
What is plucked will grow again,
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone.
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone.
The moon was gone, but to the magician's eyes the unicorn was the moon, cold and white and very old, lighting his way to safety, or to madness.
Avicenna California ... Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories.
Don't look back and don't run. You must never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention.
My son, your ineptitude is so vast, your incompetence so profound, that I am certain you are inhabited by greater power than I have ever known.
There's a line in the Bible about perfect love casting out fear. That I don't know about, but orneriness will do it every time.
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.
O meal is good enough to justify all the money and effort wasted in preparing it. It is an illusion and an expense. Live as I do, undeceived.
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
A dream that returns so often is like to be a messenger, come to warn you of the future or to remind you of things untimely forgotten.
When I was very young every grownup was a hero. It's been all downhill since then, and I have only two left.
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes.
(King Pelles the Sure)
(King Pelles the Sure)
The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.
Forget it, Jonathan, and go back to sleep. And before you go to sleep, pray that no well-meaning god ever makes you immortal.
I know how to live here, I know how everything smells, and tastes, and is. What could I ever search for in the world, except this again?
Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of anything. Whatever you have been, you are mine now. I can hold you.
Prodigies began to waken somewhere southwest of his twelfth rib, and he himself- still mirroring the Lady Amalthea- began to shine.
Farewell,' she said. 'I hope you hear many more songs' - which was the best way she could think of to say good-bye to a butterfly.
The Unicorn Sonata ... tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
Real magic can never be made by offering someone else's liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.
If a man loved me, I would have talked myself into loving him, and I would have loved him very deeply after a while.
- and you are truly human now. You can love, and fear, and forbid things to be what they are, and overact.
But she knew beyond both hope and vanity that men had changed, and the world with them, because the unicorns were gone.
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art - not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course.
No," she said, answering his eyes. "I can never regret."[ ... ]"I can sorrow," she offered gently, "but it's not the same thing.
The woman I loved died because I did not love her enough - what greater sin is there than that?
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
(Uncle Chaim and Aunt Fifke and the Angel)
The baloney weighed the raven down, and the shopkeeper almost caught him as he whisked out the delicatessen door.
The magician stood erect, menacing the attackers with demons, metamorphoses, paralyzing ailments, and secret judo holds. Molly picked up a rock.
They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.
This body is dying. I can feel it rotting all around me. How can anything that is going to die be real? How can it be truly beautiful?
As for you and your heart and the things you said and didn't say, she will remember them all when men are fairy tales in books written by rabbits.
The enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream. Still
I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.
How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?
There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.
What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.
It would be a crime to eat such a mouse!" he proclaimed everywhere. "An absolute, shameful, yummy crime.
She said, "I will go no farther."
"There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.
"There is no choice. We can only go on." The magician said again. "We can only go on.
Anyone can say he's a magician these days. The old standards are gone, the old values have been abandoned. Besides, a real magician has a beard.
Once you had your man, you let all your accomplishments go. You don't sew or sing any more, you haven't illuminated a manuscript in years - and
The most professional curse ever snarled or croaked or thundered can have no effect on a pure heart.
No cat out of its first fur can ever be deceived by appearances. Unlike human beings, who enjoy them.
She is a story with no ending, happy or sad. She can never belong to anything mortal enough to want her. Most