Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Logan Pearsall Smith
Age: 80 †
Born: 1865
Born: October 18
Died: 1946
Died: March 2
Author
Literary Critic
Writer
Millville
New Jersey
Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
Years
Unhappiness
Sweet
Joy
Bring
Literature
Taken
Half
Away
More quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith
Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.
Logan Pearsall Smith
If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest, both linguistically and from the point of view of the history of human thought.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
Logan Pearsall Smith
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
We need new friends some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.
Logan Pearsall Smith
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
Logan Pearsall Smith
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Friends such as we desire are dreams and fables, yet we never quite give up the hope of finding them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories for it they did not, they would burst.
Logan Pearsall Smith
