Amy Levy Quotes & Sayings

For good or evil, these waifs on the great stream of London life had drifted together; how long the current should continue thus to bear them side by side- how long, indeed, they should float on the surface of the stream at all, was a question with which for the time being, they did not very much trouble themselves. — Amy Levy

Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new. — Amy Levy

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God. — Amy Levy

There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings. — Amy Levy

A lover may be a shadowy creature, but husbands are made of flesh and blood. — Amy Levy