Island Quotes

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Island Quotes
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“What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.”
― Island
― Island
“Stillness was most natural. To go on scrabbling and running and grasping after some kind of life was aberration; stillness was lasting.”
― Island
― Island
“We lay on the short grass and looked at the sky, waiting for the tide to go out. Even as we watched the clouds shrank and disappeared, we could see right into the universe.”
― Island
― Island
“I climbed the ditch, walked out into the middle of the prayer stones and stared across to the monks' island. If you stood there and thought you heard mass when it wasn't being sung, how would it be different to standing there when it was being sung? Would the mass in your head be any less real?”
― Island
― Island