Alan Paton Beloved Quotations

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Happy the eyes that can close

There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.

There is only one thing that has power completely, and that is love.

For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.

Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?