242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

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

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers; a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.

No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.