203 Quotes by Dorothy Day

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.

The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

The vanity of Eve, that desire to exercise power, to seduce, to drag down!

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.