George MacDonald Quotes

It's nice to have material things but they're very superficial aren't they?

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'

The externals are important but I'm not interested in superficiality.

We're just kinda surviving at a very comfortable level.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I am a temporary amusement.

Tomorrow is shallow, but today is as deep as truth.

I don't mind hidden depths but I insist that there be a surface.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Let us not play at kittly-benders. There is a solid bottom everywhere.

To possess is past the instant; we achieve the joy, immortality contented, were anomaly.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

however long we have to live, there are never enough springs.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.

...nothing is permanent. Everything and everyone you know can change at any moment. That's how I see things now - except for you. You're the one constant in my life.

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Liking interesting things doesn't make you interesting.

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark a shining space With the grave 's narrowness, though not its peace.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.