Skip to quotes
Glory Quotes

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick WhiteAuthor · Australian · 1912 – 1990
More from Patrick White
Writing QuotesLife QuotesNature Quotes
#Earth#Beginning
All Inspirational Motivational Love Life Friendship Funny Happiness Success Wisdom Family Hope All topics

Related quotes

  • The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
  • I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along. — Doug Coupland
  • Is it the factitious and the conventional that most surely succeed on earth and in the course of life? — Paul Cezanne
  • My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage. — Patrick White
  • In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature. — Patrick White
  • I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. — Patrick White
Photographers Privacy Terms Pixabay (opens in a new tab)
A Gojo Digital website · © 2026