"The dead might as well try to speak……" — Willa Cather

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as… - Willa Cather

"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."

— Willa Cather

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138 Quotes by Willa Cather

Willa Cather has 138 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
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.
The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.
Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark…
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile,…
There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had…
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.
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 Aging Quotes

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Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we… — Chinua Achebe
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their… — Margaret Atwood
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. — Lauren Bacall
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. — Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon

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