Willa Cather Quotes

My energy level has not changed.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep.

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic.

I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

If I'm tired of me, I'm sure the public is as well.

I prefer physical exhaustion over mental fatigue any day.

You never get tired unless you stop and take time for it.

I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.

The sun is new each day.

We had offers to go everywhere and we could have done them. But what would have been the point? We were tired. We had worked hard and needed a break before we got stale. We spent six months at home and writing songs.

I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.

For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

It seems perfectly simple and inevitable, like lying down after a long day's work.

Sleep is the gasoline that keeps me going.

As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.

I don't want to have to be taken out because I'm tired or I need a breather.

You've got to stay away from those plays that zap your energy.

Sometimes I flashback and say, 'Wow I'm still doing this. Wow, it's crazy.' And I'm very thankful, but I think my body needs a rest.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

I'm young, and I'm fortunate to be in good health, although I do get tired. Sometimes my wife refers to me as Mr. Excitement because of the number of naps it takes to keep this going.

Sleep is out... tired is the new black.

To be worn out is to be renewed.