Joan Lindsay Professions : Author Born : November 16, 1896 Died : December 23, 1984 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Joan Lindsay Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection. Joan Lindsay enough perfection beautiful Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place. Joan Lindsay right-time ends Time - whether you are burning it up or falling in love or spreading it out thin in a dentist's waiting room - is a commodity that cannot be weighed out and measured by clocks. Joan Lindsay waiting-rooms falling-in-love art Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight and dawn. Those dark fruitful hours, seldom recorded, whose secret flowerings breed peace and war, loves and hates, the crowning or uncrowning of heads. Joan Lindsay hate dark war Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors