All Willa Cather Quotes
- People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. Always Easier
- The prayers of all good people are good. All
- Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave… Accidents
- Some people's lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and… Affected
- I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story. Anyone
- Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. Hunger
- To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. Artist
- Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort. Effort
- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose. Hurrying
- I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. I feel as if this tree… Begin
- He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of… All
- This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over… All
- I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The… Abot
- The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin… Begin
- She had certain thoughts which were like companions, ideas which were like older and wiser friends. Certain
- 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… Broken
- To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of… Best
- Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys… Boys
- I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two! Ever Right
- I had killed a big snake. I was now a big fellow. Big
- Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet. Beneath
- Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things. Better
- I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and… Beautiful
- One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's… Cannot Divine
- The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way,… Admit