31 Quotes by Mary Boykin Chesnut

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Peace, comfort, quiet, happiness, I have found away from home. Only your own family, those nearest and dearest, can hurt you.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

Threatened men live long.

A freshet in the autumn does not compensate for a drought in the spring.