Quotes from William Hale White

When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break.

Face what you think you believe and you will be surprised.

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

Whenever anybody whom we love dies, we discover that although death is commonplace it is terribly original. We may have thought about it all our lives, but if it comes close to us, it is quite a new, strange thing to us, for which we are entirely unprepared. It may, perhaps, not be the bare loss so much as the strength of the bond which is broken that is the surprise, and we are debtors in a way to death for revealing something in us which ordinary life disguises.

Blessed are they who heal us of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man I know of none more precious.