242 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.