Quotes by Laura Riding

Laura Riding

… whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

Curious

Happenings

Unimportant

‘God’ is the name given to the most ‘important’ human idea. In English, as in other languages, the original sense of the word is obscure. But the character of the name is the same in all languages: it is a question. ‘God’ is the question ‘Is there something more important than, something besides, man?’

Character

Men

Names

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn’t matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

Children

Knowing Everything

Years

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time – the telling of what came first and before done forever.

Done

Forever

Religion

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

Literature

May

Writing

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Body

Mind

Rejection

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Appearance

Deceiving

Enough

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

Art

People

Running

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there’s nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

Disputes

Succeed

Women

Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.

Clever

Imagination

Thinking

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Appearance

Art

Attainment

Attention

Being There

Believe

Bells

Body

Book

Bridges

Character

Children

Circles

Clever

Communication

Consciousness

Country

Couple

Criticism

Curious

Deceiving

Degrees

Differences

Disappointment

Disputes

Doe

Done

Elements

Enough

Entering

Equality

Errors

Essence

Evil

Expression

Feelings

First Love

Firsts

Fit

Forever

Function

Giving

God

Goes On

Happenings

Hiking

Hungry

Husband

Ideas

Imagination

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Quotes by Laura Riding

Laura Riding

… whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.

A child should be allowed to take as long as she needs for knowing everything about herself, which is the same as learning to be herself. Even twenty-five years if necessary, or even forever. And it wouldn’t matter if doing things got delayed, because nothing is really important but being oneself.

A religion addresses the longing in us to have that said from which we can go on to speak of next and next things rightly, in their immediate time – the telling of what came first and before done forever.

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.

Anger is precious because it is an immediate, undeniable clue to what our minds (so much more cautious in rejection and resistance than our bodies) will not tolerate.

Appearances do not deceive if there are enough of them.

Conversation succeeds conversation, Until there’s nothing left to talk about Except truth, the perennial monologue, And no talker to dispute it but itself.

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