May Sinclair Quotes

#1. For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

May Sinclair

#2. People in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.

May Sinclair

#3. If you don't believe in yourself, you'll have some difficulty in making other people believe in you.

May Sinclair

#4. Knowing reality is knowing that you can't lose it.

May Sinclair

#5. And I wasn't a journalist any more than I was a trained nurse.

May Sinclair

#6. She sewed as she read. For the Vicar considered that sewing was an occupation and that reading was not. He was silent as long as his daughter sewed and when she read he talked.

May Sinclair

#7. The War will leave none of us as it found us.

May Sinclair

#8. When you think you've got hold of a genius ... you can't be sure whether it's a spark of the divine fire or a mere flash in the pan.

May Sinclair

#9. At the moment you are no longer an observing, reflecting being; you have ceased to be aware of yourself; you exist only in that quiet, steady thrill that is so unlike any excitement that you have ever known.

May Sinclair