Best 3 quotes of Hubert Butler on MyQuotes

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense.

There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?

Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us.