A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book. – Ellen Glasgow
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow