James Agee Quotes

The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. James Agee

God doesn’t believe in the easy way. James Agee

You must be in tune with the times and prepared to break with tradition. James Agee

As a whole part of ‘psychological education’ it needs to be remembered that a neurosis can be valuable; also that ‘adjustment’ to a sick and insane environment is of itself not ‘health’ but sickness and insanity. James Agee

In every child who is born, under no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. James Agee

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. James Agee

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. James Agee

A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. James Agee