Ellen Glasgow - Time Quotes

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Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

Ellen Glasgow

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

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.

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Nobody, not even the old, not even the despairing, wished to come to an end in time or in eternity.

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

The great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.

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