Ali Smith Quotes

Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.

I feel like the word shatter.

Pain can be a beautiful thing.

This is unstoppable, no holds barred. This is beautiful. Crazy. A beginning. Betrayal. Addictive. Aggressive. Alive. This is something to be afraid of.

Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.

Beauty would save the world.

Beauty that arose out of pain.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

the ice was not only broken; it was shivered into a million fragments

Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.

How alike are the groans of love to those of the dying.

The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

There is always more surface to a shattered object than a whole.

Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

That slow smile again. I love that smile! DId I think he was ugly just now? No, his face is transformed.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

... for, by all the stars That tend thy bidding, I do think the bars That kept my spirit in are burst - that I Am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!

The solution to our suffering is our suffering!

They've healed me to pieces.

Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.

Color fills her cheeks, and I think it again: that Johanna Reyes might still be beautiful. Except now I think that she isn't just beautiful in spite of the scar, she's somehow beautiful with it, like Lynn with her buzzed hair, like Tobias with the memories of his father's cruelty that he wears like armor, like my mother in her plain gray clothing.