THOMAS WOLFE YOU CAN T GO HOME AGAIN QUOTES

“You can’t go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man’s dreams of glory and of fame.”

“You can’t go back home to the world of childhood’s afternoon.”

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

“Something has spoken to me in the night… and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: ‘To lose the earth you know, for greater knowing; to lose the life you have, for greater life; to leave the friends you loved, for greater loving; to find a land more kind than home, more large than earth.'”

“Some things will never change. Some things will always be the same. Lean down your ear upon the earth and listen.”

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.”

“There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a man in the act of creating something for himself or others.”

“A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.”

“But he also knew deep down… that it was love which made him understand those who suffered, brought him close to them, made him brothers with the weary and the desperate.”

“Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen.”

“I look homeward and I can’t go home again.”

“The best way to get to know any bunch of people is to go and listen to their music.” MISSING MY FATHER IN HEAVEN QUOTES

“Music gave him strange languages, but it also disturbed him. It made dim lights shine clear and bright, but it made it difficult for him to see what was in bad light.”

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

“It is not the voice that commands the story; it is the ear.”

“He knew then that men died at haphazard like that – and lived only while blind chance spared them.”

“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.”

“He has arrived at that stage in life where the past and the future have merged imperceptibly into the present, where what you know is less important than what you believe.”

“They weren’t words, really — they were tones that came from the depths, from a time long dead, and from a lost country.”

“She desired only to hear… of the changeless earth, the eternal day when the conscious heart will be quiet, and the mind will be light.”

“It was one of those places you think you have visited before.”

“He had only learned in uncontrollable bit-by-bit pieces, what you recognize in others with a shock of surprise that no one ever learns.”

“The human mind is a dark, bottomless pit, and in its depths there may be light and beauty, but there is also endless darkness and ugliness.”