84 Quotes by Winifred Holtby

This is the endFor all our skill we have not conquered deathOur spirit leaves our bodies within our final breath.We lay our instrument of flesh asideWhen hurt beyond all mortal hope to endThis is the end

As I come through the garden, Suddenly all birds seem to cease their singing: The tight-curled buds like birds on the branches swinging Silently shrink and harden On the naked trees that were once green fountains springing. And you are not there, not there, not there, Your laughing face and your windblown hair Leave not even a ghost in the garden.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

These are they whose youth was violently severed by war and death; a word on the telephone, a scribbled line on paper, and their future ceased. They have built up their lives again, but their safety is not absolute, their fortress not impregnable.

The things that one most wants to do are the things that are probably most worth doing.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

God give me work, till my life shall end/And life, till my work is done.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.