Ishmael Quotes

But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.

~ Herman Melville

In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.

~ Ishmael Beah

We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.

~ Daniel Quinn

That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's.

~ Marilynne Robinson

There is Irish Spring, but there is no fall soap.

~ Jerry Mooney