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Ellen Glasgow Quotes about Heart

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It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

Ellen Glasgow
Heart, Happens

If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.

Ellen Glasgow
Grief, Heart, Moon
Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

Ellen Glasgow
Jealousy, Anger, Heart
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.

Ellen Glasgow
Grief, Passion, Heart

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.

Ellen Glasgow
Time, Heart, Joy
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.

Ellen Glasgow
Spring, Healing, Heart
Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.203, The Floating Press

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