51 Quotes by D.E. Stevenson

Knowledge is less hard to bear than ignorance if you possess an imagination.

Barbara returned the pressure. “It’s turned out all right after all,” she said contentedly. “Things usually do, somehow. You worry and fuss and try to make things go the way you think they should, and then you find that the other way was best. I’m going to try not to worry about things anymore.

She saw, more or less, how the whole thing had happened, for she had the gift – which is often a doubtful blessing – of being able to see the other person’s point of view, of being able to put herself in the other person’s place.

No one is forever occupied with sorrow, and there is a kind of gaiety that goes hand in hand with sorrow. Sorrow stands aside for a while to make room for mirth, and then steps forward to take her victim in a stronger grip. It was like that with me.

She had been born in the days when children were taught to venerate the aged, but she had lived long enough to learn that she could count upon no respect from the young.

It is a terrible thing to be angry with the dead.