Ellen Glasgow Quotes

I have not the hope of being immortal, because the desire of it has not given me that vanity.

We have no hope and yet we live in longing.

When Time is spent, Eternity begins.

Who, except the gods, can live time through forever without any pain?

I don't want to die.

I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

If all I can say is I'm not in this swamp, I'm not in this swamp then there is not a rope in front of me and there is not an alligator behind me and there is not a girl sitting at the edge eating a hot dog and if I believe that, then dying would be the only answer because then Death couldn't come and say Peachy to me anymore and after all she has a brother who believes in hope.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Your greatest fear is death and your deepest craving is survival. You want Forever, you desire Eternity. In your deluded belief that you are this 'mind' or 'spirit' or 'soul', you find the escape clause in your contract with mortality. Perhaps as 'mind' you can wing free of the body when it dies, hmm?

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity.

These have not the hope to die.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless, than one that always verges on despair.

The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.

The truth is I love being alive. And I love feeling free. So if I can't have those things then I feel like a caged animal and I'd rather not be in a cage. I'd rather be dead. And it's real simple. And I think it's not that uncommon.

No man can pass into eternity, for he is already in it.

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.