Hortense Odlum Quotes

For many women, becoming a widow does not just mean the heartache of losing a husband, but often losing everything else as well.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

I'm not a businessperson. I have no sense of money. My mom does everything for me. She makes all my decisions for me, and even buys my clothes. She's very protective.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

I was in this sheltered little environment where, basically, all my high school experience was in 'Life Goes On,' and everyone told me where to go, what to do, how to think - I never had to do anything for myself.

I lost my husband, and it's a horrific thing to live through.

As a man, if you lose your wife, it's a horrible experience, especially with kids. But when one person passes away and you're still alive, people still depend on you - that's what you have to lean on.

If our parents fixed everything for us and did not allow us to do anything on our own, or intervened every single time, we would all grow up to be completely dependent.

Everything new troubles us. Life catches us unawares and obliges us to journey towards the unknown, even when we do not want to, even when we do not need to.

Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.

Where parents do too much for their children, the children will not do much for themselves.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

Understand death? Sure. That was when the monsters got you.

Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad.

The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

Miss Leefolt sigh, hang up the phone like she just don't know how her brain gone operate without Miss Hilly coming over to push the Think buttons.

I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Death carries off a man busy picking flowers with an besotted mind, like a great flood does a sleeping village.

Those who do too much for their children will soon find they can do nothing with their children. So many children have been so much done for they are almost done in.

Death is when the monsters get you.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.