Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
He was one of those rare men who are capable of being fully in love only once in their lives.
Pat Conroy
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Pat Conroy
Age: 70 †
Born: 1945
Born: October 26
Died: 2016
Died: March 4
Author
Basketball Player
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Patrick Conroy
Donald Patrick Conroy
Tides
Rare
Fully
Capable
Lives
Men
Love
More quotes by Pat Conroy
Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.
Pat Conroy
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It’s the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We’ve got to be patient enough to wait for them.
Pat Conroy
I was born and raised on a Carolina sea island and I carried the sunshine of the low-country, inked in dark gold, on my back and shoulders.
Pat Conroy
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
Pat Conroy
Carolina beach music, Dupree said, coming up on the porch. The holiest sound on earth.
Pat Conroy
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Pat Conroy
The safe places could only be visited they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.
Pat Conroy
Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.
Pat Conroy
My mother raised me to be a writer.
Pat Conroy
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.
Pat Conroy
I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
Pat Conroy
A story untold could be the one that kills you.
Pat Conroy
Love's action. It isn't talk and it never has been.
Pat Conroy
Rape is a crime against sleep and memory it's afterimage imprints itself like an irreversible negative from the camera obscura of dreams.
Pat Conroy
It is an art form to hate New York City properly. So far I have always been a featherweight debunker of New York it takes too much energy and endurance to record the infinite number of ways the city offends me.
Pat Conroy
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do, with our hearts exploding or our blood pressure rising or our livers eaten away by alcohol because that lake of grief inside us has no outlet. We, men, die because our faces were not watered enough.
Pat Conroy
I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.
Pat Conroy
The English language on her tongue became a smoke-screen, without her eyes changing expression in the least.
Pat Conroy
If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.
Pat Conroy
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.
Pat Conroy