Best Quotes by Joyce Cary (Top 9)

  1. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
  2. To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.
  3. The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.
  4. Plantie is a very strong Protestant, that is to say, he's against all churches, especially the Protestant: and he thinks a lot of Buddha, Karma and Confucius. He is also a bit of an anarchist and three or four years ago he took up Einstein and vitamins.
  5. Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends. Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.
  6. I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.
  7. Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
  8. For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.
  9. It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.