Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.
Ellen Glasgow
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Nearer
Came
Enjoy
Living
Death
Nature
Perversity
More quotes by Ellen Glasgow
Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.
Ellen Glasgow
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Ellen Glasgow
the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
Ellen Glasgow
Happiness is a hardy annual.
Ellen Glasgow
My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
Ellen Glasgow
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
Ellen Glasgow
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
Ellen Glasgow
What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.
Ellen Glasgow
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
Ellen Glasgow
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
Ellen Glasgow
a self-made martyr is a poor thing.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow
A doctrine of endurance flows easily from our lips when we are enduring jam and our neighbors dry bread, and it is still possible for us to become resigned to the afflictions of our brother.
Ellen Glasgow
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.
Ellen Glasgow
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
Ellen Glasgow
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
Ellen Glasgow
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
Ellen Glasgow
... in the nineteen-thirties ... the most casual reader of murder mysteries could infallibly detect the villain, as soon as there entered a character who had recently washed his neck and did not commit mayhem on the English language.
Ellen Glasgow
