Quotes by Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Bones

Broken Heart

Forever

A good time for laughing is when you can.

Funny

Inspirational

Laughing

A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing.

Challenges

Rattlesnakes

Teach

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Inspiring

Love

Religious

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

Heart

Humor

Lost Love

At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.

Inspirational

Teenage

Tragedy

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Distance

Leadership

Women

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Farewell

Grieving

Long

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Kind

Past

Writing

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Attitude

Happiness

Truth

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Animal

Attitude

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Being A Mom

Being Alone

Bones

Book

Born

Broken Heart

Business

Cat

Challenges

Chance

Children

Color

Communication

Courage

Creating

Dear

Dear God

Desert

Different

Distance

Earth

Easter

Easy

Education

Emotion

Enough

Evil

Eye

Farewell

Feelings

Feels

Fool

Forever

Forgiveness

Friendship

Funny

Garden

Grieving

Half

Happiness

Hate

Heart

Helpful

History

Honest

Honesty

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Quotes by Jessamyn West

Jessamyn West

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

A good time for laughing is when you can.

A rattlesnake that doesn’t bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

At fourteen you don’t need sickness or death for tragedy.

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

Each death and departure comes to us as a surprise, a sorrow never anticipated. Life is a long series of farewells; only the circumstances should surprise us.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

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