Heart Quotes by Willa Cather

“She had no little vanities, only one big one, and she would never forgive.”

— Willa Cather

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

— Willa Cather

She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends.

— Willa Cather

“He had been a fool to imagine it, but he was glad he had been a fool. She had given him one…

— Willa Cather

“She began to wonder whether she would not do better to finish her life alone. What was left of life seemed unimportant.”

— Willa Cather

"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent.

— Willa Cather

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

— Willa Cather

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

— Willa Cather

“Since then she had changed so much in her thoughts, in her ways, even in her looks, that she might wonder she…

— Willa Cather

“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said…

— Willa Cather

“Along with the yearning that came from some deep part of her, that was selfless and exalted, Thea had a hard kind…

— Willa Cather

“Enid was meant for him and she had come for him; he would never let her go. She should never know how…

— Willa Cather

In New Mexico, he always awoke a young man, not until he arose and began to shave did he realize that he…

— Willa Cather

The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the…

— Willa Cather

“Thea began to wonder whether people could not utterly lose the power to work, as they can lose their voice or their…

— Willa Cather

But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or…

— Willa Cather

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

— Willa Cather