Quote

But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.

Ellen Glasgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Sadder
Youth
Age
Happy

More quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Image
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
Ellen Glasgow
Image
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
Ellen Glasgow
Image
What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
You look as if you had lived on duty and it hadn't agreed with you.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know) next I was a realist now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Theories have nothing to do with life.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
Ellen Glasgow