Quotes by Willa Sibert Cather

“He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind”

“No one can build her security on the nobleness of another person”

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to ones own.”

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

“When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them, as if their reason had left them”

“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”

“Some peoples lives are affected by what happens to their person or their property; but for others fate is what happens to their feelings and their thoughts -- that and nothing more.”

“The end is nothing; the road is all.”

“One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the worlds end somewhere, and hold fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.”

“That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.”

“I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.”

“And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.”

“The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed”