"life hurrying past us and running away, too……" — Willa Cather
"life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose."
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138 Quotes by Willa Cather
Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site.
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Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
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There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.
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The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
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Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
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Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
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Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
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There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
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No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power…
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More Hurrying Quotes
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What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is…
— Willa Cather
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Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.
— Jean Cocteau
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and…
— Alexander Whyte
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When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the…
— Djuna Barnes
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Be quick without hurrying.
— John Wooden
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A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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With eternity to draw on there could be no reason for hurrying - 'hurry' was not a concept in Martian.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves.
— E. M. Forster
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There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors…
— Mary Steenburgen
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Have a time and place for everything, and do everything in its time and place, and you will not only…
— Tryon Edwards
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How I like claret!...It fills one's mouth with a gushing freshness, then goes down to cool and feverless; then, you…
— John Keats
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