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Augusta Jane Evans Quotes

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans
Years, Suffering, Doe

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Augusta Jane Evans
Blood, Veins, Flow
Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.438

If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Augusta Jane Evans
Men, Self, Stronger
Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.272

Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Augusta Jane Evans
Insanity, Form, Poetry Is

Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Augusta Jane Evans
Luxury, Tears, Relief
Augusta Jane Evans (1864). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.296

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Augusta Jane Evans
Memories, Men, Earth
Augusta Jane Evans (1867). “St. Elmo: A Novel”, p.408

All things are dark to sorrow.

Augusta Jane Evans
Dark, Sorrow, All Things
Augusta Jane Evans (1872). “Inez: A Tale of the Alamo”, p.256

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Augusta Jane Evans
Money, People, Soul
Augusta Jane Evans (1860). “Beulah”, p.27

Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Augusta Jane Evans
Shadow, Icy, Duty
Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans
Heart, Shadow, Icy
Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140

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