But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich. Alan Paton More Quotes by Alan Paton More Quotes From Alan Paton It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country destroying goes-on What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart? Alan Paton gun eye heart It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton could-have-been has-beens habit Ask yourself not if this or that is expedient, but if it is right. Alan Paton standards asks life For who can stop the heart from breaking? Alan Paton heart And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do. Alan Paton compassion gold heaven One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue Alan Paton finished one-thing There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country lovely running If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing. Alan Paton concern issues novel And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children. Alan Paton clothes money children The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. Alan Paton cry-the-beloved-country broken tragedy Nosecond Johannesburg isneededuponthe earth.One is enough. Alan Paton johannesburg enough earth The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed. Alan Paton care land men Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering. Alan Paton pain secret kindness When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. Alan Paton strive fear men For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much. Alan Paton unborn-child too-much giving There are voices crying what must be done, a hundred, a thousand voices. But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that. Alan Paton voice done helping There is a man sleeping in the grass. And over him is gathering the greatest storm of all his days. Such lightening and thunder will come there has never been seen before, bringing death and destruction. People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger. And whether they do not see him there in the grass, or whether they fear to halt even a moment, but they do not wake him, they let him be. Alan Paton home sleep past There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love. Alan Paton beloved-country cry-the-beloved-country one-thing because life slips away, and because I need for the rest of my journey a star that will not play false to me, a compass that will not lie. Alan Paton stars journey lying
