Quote

Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

Olive Schreiner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Olive Schreiner
Age: 65 †
Born: 1855
Born: March 24
Died: 1920
Died: December 11
Author
Writer
Cape of Good Hope
Olive Emily Albertina Schreiner
Ralph Iron
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner
Person
Feel
Talked
Feels
Sacred
Thing
Except
Love
Anyone
Like
Given
Part
Persons

More quotes by Olive Schreiner

Image
There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
Olive Schreiner
Image
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Olive Schreiner
Image
No woman who is a woman says of a human body, 'it is nothing' ... On this one point, and on this point alone, the knowledge of woman, simply as woman, is superior to that of man she knows the history of human flesh she knows its cost he does not.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
Olive Schreiner
Image
I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Olive Schreiner
Image
We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.
Olive Schreiner
Image
We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
Olive Schreiner
Image
There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
Olive Schreiner
Image
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
Olive Schreiner
Image
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
Olive Schreiner
Image
When the curtain falls no one is ready
Olive Schreiner
Image
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Soul, what have I to do with you?
Olive Schreiner
Image
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite lose this power, they see everything through a few preconceived ideas which hang like a veil between them and the outer world.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
Olive Schreiner
Image
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
Olive Schreiner
Image
Men are like the earth and we are the moon we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Olive Schreiner
Image
It is the swimmer who first leaps into the frozen stream who is cut sharpest by the ice those who follow him find it broken, and the last find it gone. It is the men or women who first tread down the path which the bulk of humanity will ultimately follow, who must find themselves at last in solitudes where the silence is deadly.
Olive Schreiner