Quote

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Willa Cather

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
Author
Biographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Willa Sibert Cather
Friendship
Joy
Full
Friends
Family
Others
Exile
Everything
Joys
Men
Solitary

More quotes by Willa Cather

Image
Art, it seems to me, should simplify.
Willa Cather
Image
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
Willa Cather
Image
A work-room should be like an old shoe no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
Willa Cather
Image
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
Willa Cather
Image
Winter lies too long in country towns hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Willa Cather
Image
On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.
Willa Cather
Image
The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.
Willa Cather
Image
Now that Stevenson is dead I can think of but one English- speaking author who is really keeping his self-respect and sticking forperfection. Of course I refer to that mighty master of language and keen student of human actions and motives, Henry James.
Willa Cather
Image
Religion is different from everything else because in religion seeking is finding.
Willa Cather
Image
Where there is great love there are always miracles.
Willa Cather
Image
The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.
Willa Cather
Image
Money is a protection, a cloak it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
Willa Cather
Image
Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.
Willa Cather
Image
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Willa Cather
Image
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.
Willa Cather
Image
This land was an enigma. It was like a horse that no one knows how to break to harness, that runs wild and kicks things to pieces.
Willa Cather
Image
Alexandra sighed. I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.
Willa Cather
Image
The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.
Willa Cather
Image
The prayers of all good people are good.
Willa Cather
Image
One summer evening in the year 1848, three Cardinals and a missionary were dining together in the gardens of a villa in the Sabine hills, overlooking Rome.
Willa Cather