Ellen Glasgow - Alone Quotes

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Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free.... I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

Ellen Glasgow

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Ellen Glasgow

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life — the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

Ellen Glasgow

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

Ellen Glasgow

The old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion; and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.

Ellen Glasgow

Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.

Ellen Glasgow