Top 30 Leonora O'reilly Quotes
#1. Darling stop being philosophical it doesn't suit you, it makes your nose red.
Leonora Carrington
#2. A Brotherhood with the grim knowledge of what is better for other people & the iron determination to better them whether they like it or not.
Leonora Carrington
#3. His character is like an emerald - multifaceted and enhanced by inclusions.
Melika Dannese Lux
#4. We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.
Leonora Carrington
#5. I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway
Leonora Carrington
#6. With shrieks of adoration it flung itself on human breasts, 'to crush you, to suck your life away. I cannot drag my own weight over the crust of the earth so you must carry me on your back so that in time you will be crippled with my weight.' These words are in every heart in the mating season.
Leonora Carrington
#7. Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.
Leonora Carrington
#10. I am so sad, Eleanor, so sad that my body has become transparent, I've shed so many tears. Is it possible to dissolve into water without leaving a trace?
Leonora Carrington
#12. The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.
Leonora Speyer
#14. Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.
Jeff VanderMeer
#15. I didn't have time to be anyone's muse ... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Leonora Carrington
#16. Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.
Leonora Carrington
#17. I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.
Leonora Carrington
#18. I believe in anthologies, although I know they offer only a glimpse.
Leonora Speyer
#19. To my daughter Leonora without whose never-failing sympathy and encouragement this book would have been finished in half the time.
P.G. Wodehouse
#20. Virginia returned home, followed by the cats. There, in the kitchen, she gave birth to seven little boars. Out of sentiment she kept the one most like Igname, and boiled the others for herself and the cats, as a funeral feast.
Leonora Carrington
#21. The King sat down and I noticed that a brood of small transparent roots grew from the soles of his feet. 'Yes, I am also errant. My roots can find no soil and this is why they are visible.
Leonora Carrington
#22. [At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.
Leonora Carrington
#23. Anyway, Art [making] is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds, isn't that so, dear lady?
Leonora Carrington
#25. Oh dear, is that a skunk?" Leonora asked.
"No," Alessandro gasped in horror. "No the smelly cat!"
"I've told you, Alessandro darling, they aren't cats."
"They look like cats. Like the big fluffy cat she's been stepped on and flattened to a big fluffy pancake cat," Alessandro argued.
Lynsay Sands
#26. Leonora Penderton feared neither man, beast, nor the devil; God she had never known.
Carson McCullers
#27. Do not give up hope entirely in spite of the horror of your situation. I am mobilising all my mental capacities to obtain your unconditional freedom.
Leonora Carrington
#28. Do you believe, she went on, that the past dies?
Yes, said Margaret. Yes, if the present cuts its throat.
Leonora Carrington
#29. To be exact has naught to do with pedantry or dogma.
Leonora Speyer
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