Ellen Glasgow - Life Quotes

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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

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She had worked so hard for so many years that the habit had degenerated into a disease, and thrift had become a tyrant instead of a slave in her life.

Ellen Glasgow
1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over.
2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries.
3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

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Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few intense joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

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And she saw now that the strong impulses which had once wrecked her happiness were the forces that had enabled her to rebuild her life out of the ruins.

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The life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

Ellen Glasgow
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love'.

Ellen Glasgow
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

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Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

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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.

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I've liked life well enough, but I reckon I'll like death even better as soon as I've gotten used to the feel of it.... I shouldn't be amazed to find it less lonely than life after I'm once safely settled.

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There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.

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It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

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For it seemed to him that the actual boundary between youth and age is the moment when one realizes that one cannot change life.

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To be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

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There are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.

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Her strength lay in the fact that never in her life had she admitted even to herself, that she had been in the wrong.

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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.

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