242 Quotes by 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.

audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.

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.

Borrowed illusions are better than none ...

Cruelty is the only sin.

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.