Elizabeth Harrower Quotes & Sayings

I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other. — Elizabeth Harrower

What is it about someone genuine that makes other people want to crucify him in some tiny-seeming way? Someone has probably written the reason down in a book. But no one takes any notice, if we do know. — Elizabeth Harrower

But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better. — Elizabeth Harrower

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them. — Elizabeth Harrower

Oh, but she wished, she wished that there were someone she could tell.Then, in the middle of this tremendous wish, Alice paused: a great thing was beginning to happen to her. A new thought appeared in her mind, yet Alice recognized it as if it had always been there. The thought said, But I know. I know.
After this she looked the same, and her circumstances didn't alter, but she was a different person altogether. — Elizabeth Harrower

Perhaps this was part of growing older, to undergo hideous alterations in the deepest certainties, in love, in lovers, finally in one's self. — Elizabeth Harrower

I was attracted to the strangeness of his mind as a psychiatrist might have been drawn to an interesting case. he wanted a resident analyst. Neither of us understood. — Elizabeth Harrower

If we lived forever, there would be time to recover from mistakes of twenty years duration. — Elizabeth Harrower

So they had all had more troubles than she. Did that really make them superior? If two men were walking along the street and a brick fell on one, missing the other, did that make the injured one a better person? — Elizabeth Harrower