Robertson Davies

..but when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#death

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#laughter #religion #satan #the-devil #business

...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

There is really no such thing as a secret; everybody likes to tell, and everybody does tell. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

The recognition of oneself as a part of nature, and reliance on natural things, are disappearing for hundreds of millions of people who do not know that anything is being lost. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#nature

Before she continued her search she sat in his revolving desk chair, and wept for the passing of time, and the necessary death of the well-loved, wise old man. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#love #time #death

I seemed to be the only person I knew without a plan that would put the world on its feet and wipe the tear from every eye. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#fear #courage

Education is a great shield against experience. It offers so much, ready-made and all from the best shops, that there's a temptation to miss your own life in pursuing the life of your betters. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#education

But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business