Robert Henri Quotes

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.

If you love me, you love me, and if you hate me, you hate me, but you're going to get me.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

Nothing ever goes away.

Can one end anything? A chapter, a paragraph, a sentence even? Doesn't everything one has ever done go on living in spite of subsequent events?

I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,' and one of them is bullets.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

It’s over, and can’t be helped, and that’s one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, ven they cut the wrong man’s head off.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

There's this classic car crash thing about 'Macbeth.' You can just see this car driving at 100 mph towards this brick wall, and you can't do anything about it, and the characters are desperately trying to stop it and can't.

No doing without some ruing.

He can run, but he can't hide.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.

It's amazing how the world does actually go on in the middle of things that should stop it for us.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.