Redeeming Quotes

“If we want to understand its imprint, we must put silence in context. This allows us to retreat, reflect, rejuvenate, and gain redeeming strength. We escape then triviality and find depth and meaning. ("A gap of silence")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Writing fiction has always, for me, been an alchemy of turning pain into poetry, ugliness into beauty. It has been a kind of redemption.”
― Nancy Springer, The Oddling Prince

“Rescuing myself’ is an oxymoron that will leave me in the perpetual need of being rescued ‘from myself’.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s nothing redeeming about lying, other than it alerts others to the nature of your character.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If there’s any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it’s that I’m on my feet. Now all I’ve got to do is alter my direction.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The lost paradises are the only true ones not because, in retrospect, the past joy seems more beautiful than it really was, but because remembrance alone provides the joy without the anxiety over its passing and thus gives it an otherwise impossible duration. Time loses its power when remembrance redeems the past.”
― Herbert Marcuse, Eros and Civilization