How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives! — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
People always think the bread of another country is better than their own. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Old people, who have felt blows and toil and known the world's hard hand, need, even more than children do, a woman's… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you? — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Many people seem to think that art is a luxury to be imported and tacked on to life. Art springs out of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all - no matter what people do to graft it into… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or property, but for others fate is what happens to their… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten.… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I only knew the schoolbooks said he "died in the wilderness, of a broken heart." "More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly,… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Have the last word ma'm," he said cheerfully. "It's a lady's privilege.” — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
"More than him has done that," said Antonia sadly, and the girls murmured assent. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“Money and office and success are the consolations of impotence. Fortune turns kind to such solid people and lets them suck their bone in… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“You remember how homesick I used to get, and what long talks we used to have coming from school? We've someway always felt alike… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“He placed this book in my grandmother's hands, looked at her entreatingly, and said, with an earnestness which I shall never forget, "Te-e-ach, te-e-ach… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
![“[Some] people really expect the passion of love to fill and gratify every need of life, whereas nature only intended that it should meet one of many demands. They insist on making it stand for all the emotional pleasures of life and art; expecting an individual and self-limited passion to yield…” quote by Willa Cather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/94d/willa-cather-634_art_some-people-really-expect-the-passion-of_890954.jpg)
