And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within.… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
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… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
I was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs? — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering. — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share
