491 Quotes by Willa Cather

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

Where there is great love there are always miracles.

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.

I tell you there is such a thing as creative hate.