Willa Cather People Quotations

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

No one person knows much more about writing than another. I expect that when people think they know anything about it, then their case is hopeless.

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

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on a cigar-box lid.

Some people's 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.

We all like people who do things, even if we only see their faces on cigar-box lids.

Ugly accidents happen . . . always have and always will. But the failures are swept back into the pile and forgotten. They don`t leave any lasting scar in the world, and they don`t affect the future. The things that last are the good things. The people who forge ahead and do something, they really count.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

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

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

Alexandra sighed. "I have a feeling that if you go away, you will not come back. Something will happen to one of us, or to both. People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find. What I have is yours if you care enough about me to take it.

How terrible it was to love people when you could not really share their lives!

Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.

The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

The prayers of all good people are good.

People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.

In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?

We come and go, but the land is always here. And the people who love it and understand it are the people who own it - for a little while.

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely the saddest thing in the world is falling out of love--if once one has ever fallen in.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.