Famous Quotes

"I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are."

Kate Atkinson on Forgiveness

More quotes about Forgiveness

• "Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Forgiveness

• "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Forgiveness

• "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

  John F. Kennedy on Forgiveness

• "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

  Bruce Lee on Forgiveness

• "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

  Oscar Wilde on Forgiveness

More quotes by Kate Atkinson

• "The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes."

• "I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?"

• "My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go."

• "I'm a lapsed Quaker. I don't go to meetings any more. But I'm very drawn to Catholicism - all that glitter. I'd love to be a Catholic. I think it would be fantastic - faith, forgiveness, absolution, extreme unction - all these wonderful words. I don't think anyone who was ever born a Catholic hasn't died a Catholic, no matter how lapsed they are."

• "When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day."