Quote

a joy that hurts with sadness a sadness that is pleasurable a pleasure full of terror a terror that excites an excitement that calms a calmness that frightens.

Aidan Chambers

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Aidan Chambers
Age: 89
Born: 1934
Born: December 27
Author
Playwright
Writer
Pleasure
Hurts
Excitement
Sadness
Terror
Calms
Calm
Frightens
Joy
Pleasurable
Full
Excites
Hurt
Calmness

More quotes by Aidan Chambers

Image
He thought: How difficult it is to explain yourself to yourself. Sometimes there only is, and no knowing.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
Aidan Chambers
Image
I will not compromise on language or content. At 15, people can handle the same language as me, they're just as complicated as me and are very interested in thinking about important questions for the first time.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
Aidan Chambers
Image
And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
Aidan Chambers
Image
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Aidan Chambers
Image
I cannot live without reading.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
Aidan Chambers
Image
When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
Aidan Chambers
Image
However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.
Aidan Chambers
Image
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Doing anything when you're bored is very very boring. Anyway, doing nothing is the point of being bored. The pleasure of being bored ismooning about and doing nothing.
Aidan Chambers
Image
We resent being faced with facts we'd prefer to ignore as much as being wrongly accused of doing something we haven't.
Aidan Chambers
Image
If a boy, if a man, asks you if you're all right and you say yes, he'll always believe you and get on with what he wants to do. It's just the way they're made.
Aidan Chambers
Image
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
Aidan Chambers
Image
You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.
Aidan Chambers
Image
There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
Aidan Chambers
Image
You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
Aidan Chambers
Image
And the price for being a homo-hater should be as high as anyone can pay.
Aidan Chambers