491 Quotes by Willa Cather

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves

The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

He would make a bouquet for a lovely lady; a bouquet gathered off the cheeks of the morning. . . these roses, only half awake, in the defencelessness of utter beauty.

The first time I deceived my grandparents I felt rather shabby, perhaps even the second time, but I soon ceased to think about it.

One realizes that 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.