Ellen Glasgow Quotes

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.

He who demands little gets it.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.

There is a terrible loneliness in the spring.

The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.

women love with their imagination and men with their senses.

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes; nothing returns.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.

Nothing is more trying than nerves to people who have none.