Dorothy Gilman - Life Quotes

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Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

Dorothy Gilman

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

Dorothy Gilman

People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.

Dorothy Gilman

She felt that most of the obstacles in her life had been placed there by logical people.

Dorothy Gilman

The richness of living caught at her throat, and all the well-meant security with which people surrounded themselves was exposed for what it truly was: a wall to keep out life, a conceit, a mad delusion.

Dorothy Gilman