Quotes from Kathryn Hulme

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

Her optimism flew high, not only for her eventual cure of which she was sure, but for everything that would happen to her henceforth. That too, she knew was a characteristic of the tubercular - the very quality , in fact, which made them such interesting patients.

The first impressions entered with such sharp shock that never again would I be able to look on a refugee mass, even in pictures, and see it collectively, see it as a homogeneous stream of unfortunate humanity that could be handled with the impersonal science of the engineer who does not ever think of the drops of water when he is controlling a flood. Human

Here was gossip, cooking, boot- and diaper-drying and all the other business that man has ever performed before a fire. Here also could always be found someone with the soul of a concierge who could lead you through the maze of woolen-walled corridors to the room within a room that you were seeking, telling you meanwhile every detail of what went on behind that particular khaki curtain. As

I thought of the Old English root of teach — tæcan , like token, and saw the token being passed like a visible object from teacher to pupil.

Gurdjieff says, 'You can never stop associations. As long as you breathe, there are associations. These are automatic. . . . you must not try to stop them; let associations flow but not be active .