Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.
Louisa May Alcott
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Louisa May Alcott
Age: 55 †
Born: 1832
Born: November 29
Died: 1888
Died: March 6
Domestic Worker
Novelist
Nurse
Poet
Suffragette
Teacher
Writer
Germantown
Philadelphia
A. M. Barnard
Flora Fairfield
Flora Fairchild
Ever
Hard
Life
Shall
Often
More quotes by Louisa May Alcott
Every house needs a grandmother in it.
Louisa May Alcott
Nothing is impossible to a determined woman.
Louisa May Alcott
Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art.
Louisa May Alcott
Don't try to make me grow up before my time.
Louisa May Alcott
Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it.
Louisa May Alcott
Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.
Louisa May Alcott
... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.
Louisa May Alcott
Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.
Louisa May Alcott
…misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
Louisa May Alcott
A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.
Louisa May Alcott
...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well.
Louisa May Alcott
Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Louisa May Alcott
[She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him.
Louisa May Alcott
A child her wayward pencil drew On margins of her book Garlands of flower, dancing elves, Bud, butterfly, and brook, Lessons undone, and plum forgot, Seeking with hand and heart The teacher whom she learned to love Before she knew t'was Art.
Louisa May Alcott
Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself. -
Louisa May Alcott
Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it.
Louisa May Alcott
If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now.
Louisa May Alcott
Have your fun, my dear but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.
Louisa May Alcott
Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.
Louisa May Alcott
She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.
Louisa May Alcott
