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Life Quotes by Willa Cather
- The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
- I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
- There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.
- Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement.
- What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying…
- Life began for me, when I ceased to admire and began to remember.
- The end is nothing; the road is all.
- It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional…
- life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.
- I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!
- 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…
- Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not…
- Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never…
- I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all…
- 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 somehow…
- Life was so short that it meant nothing at all unless it were continually reinforced by something that endured; unless the shadows of individual existence…
- The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle