Howard Spring > Quotes

“If you have ever come up against Nothing you have no idea how it can scare you out of your wits. When I was a child I used to be afraid of Something in the dark. I know now that the most fearful thing about the dark is that we may find Nothing in it.”
― Howard Spring, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories

“O reino de Deus não será avançado por nossas igrejas se encherem de pessoas, mas pelas pessoas em nossas igrejas se encherem de Deus.”
― Howard Spring

“The blue smoke rose into the blue air, solemn, beautiful as all that day. I stood there long after everyone else was gone, and my life seemed to me to have as much meaning as that wavering and insubstantial column, or as the dead grass that fed it.”
― Howard Spring, All the Day Long

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― Howard Spring, Hard Facts

“Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.”
― Howard Spring, All the Day Long

“Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?”
― Howard Spring, All the Day Long