Quotes by Muriel Strode

“O God, I pray that not too much of calm be mine, but one day let the maddened rush of waters break against my soul.”

“I am in the firing line, in the front ranks. I have elected to be in the fire and the smoke, in the Battle of Being.”

“Life consigned us all to the pit, and she knew that there were those who would weep, and go, and those who would laugh at her, and stay.”

“Give me that life that is seamed and riven with living.”

“I stood afar off, watching the conflict of humanity, till wise old life came along and tossed me into the arena, saying, "There! take that, pedant, if you would know."”

“To give the reins to life! To loosen it from its leash, and know its free and unrestricted movement. To reach out and out, and feel not the tightening of the thong.”

“I set myself free into the blue-flowing sky, I melt with the star-mist, I am one with the moon's pourings. I come limpid and easy to life, Meeting its curves and its undulations, as the shore-line meets the sea, As the sky meets the indenture of the hills.”

“I come ravishing life with a wild riot of bloom.”

“Life is a tragedy to those who really live her.”

“To slake the thirst of being. To drink the draught, deep and cool, and satisfying.”

“To feel life, to have the consciousness of it, as a mother feels the turning of her babe in the womb.”

“One day... I shall come into a conscious sense of life, thrilling at its contact, quivering at the touch of its breath. I shall feel it deep in the nerve centers of my bones.... I shall feel it like the sting of bees.”