John Meade Falkner Quotes

#1. Is there any depression so deep as this? is there any night so dark as this first eclipse of the soul, this first conscious stilling of the instinct for right?

John Meade Falkner

#2. Illusions connected with religion are generally most difficult to remove.

John Meade Falkner

#3. We thought there was no more behind But such a day tomorrow as today And to be a boy eternal.

John Meade Falkner

#4. Poverty's a chilly theme," he said; "let's take something to warm us before we go on with the variations.

John Meade Falkner

#5. ...Will you not join me in a cup of cocoa? The kettle boils."

Mr Sharnall's face fell.

"You ought to have been an old woman," he said; "only old women drink cocoa. Well, I don't mind if I do; any port in a storm.

John Meade Falkner

#6. He was in that broken mood for which the Middle Ages offered the cloister as a remedy; he felt the urgent need of sacrifice and abnegation to purge him.

John Meade Falkner

#7. Westray remembered the organist's manner in the church, and began to suspect that his mind was turned. The other read his thoughts, and said rather reproachfully:

"Oh no, I am not mad - only weak and foolish and very cowardly.

John Meade Falkner