Elizabeth Goudge - Day Quotes

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Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Elizabeth Goudge

His hatred of his wife horrified him. It was the first hatred of his life, it was growing in bitterness and intensity day by day, and he had no idea what to do about it.

Elizabeth Goudge

Could you understand the meaning of light if there were no darkness to point the contrast? Day and night, life and death, love and hatred; since none of these things can have any being at all apart from the existence of the other; only the indolence of human nature finds it so hard to pierce through to the other side.

Elizabeth Goudge

Autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

Elizabeth Goudge

Only at the very center of pain or joy was one wholly wretched, wholly joyful. There was only one hour of the night in which sunset or dawn was not present to the mind in memory or hope, only one hour of the day when the sun seemed neither rising nor declining, and the intensity of those hours dulled and blinded.

Elizabeth Goudge

Her birthdays were always important to her; for being a born lover of life, she would always keep the day of her entrance into it as a very great festival indeed.

Elizabeth Goudge