Susan Glaspell Quotes & Sayings

Only cowards and the broken in spirit surrendered the future as payment for the past. Love was the great and beautiful wonder - but surely one should not stay with it in the place where it found one. Why, loving should light the way! Far from engulfing all the rest of life it seemed now that love should open life to one. Whether one kept it or whether one lost it, it failed if it did not send one farther along the way. She had been afraid to think of her love changing because that had seemed to grant that it had failed. But now it seemed that it failed if it did not leave her bigger than it had found her. Her eyes filled in response to the stern beauty of that. Not that one should stay with love in the same place, but rather the meaning of it all was in just this: that it should send one on. — Susan Glaspell

She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that - oh, that was thirty years ago. — Susan Glaspell

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not. — Susan Glaspell

It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page. — Susan Glaspell

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon. — Susan Glaspell

That's the worst of a war
you have to go on hearing about it so long. — Susan Glaspell

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream. — Susan Glaspell

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them. — Susan Glaspell

Little dictionary sprite, sunshine vendor, and girl to be loved. — Susan Glaspell

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day. — Susan Glaspell

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us. — Susan Glaspell

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised. — Susan Glaspell

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them. — Susan Glaspell

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent. — Susan Glaspell

No, Wright wouldn't like the bird - a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too. — Susan Glaspell

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us. — Susan Glaspell

though I said to Harry that I didn't know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John - — Susan Glaspell

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. — Susan Glaspell

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others. — Susan Glaspell

Two people do not really live together until their books become one library. You have known just how to classify your own - books you have had, some of them since you were eleven years old. Strange now to have them adapting themselves to the books of some one else - these two life-histories becoming one, two pasts uniting. — Susan Glaspell

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage. — Susan Glaspell

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end. — Susan Glaspell

Women are used to worrying over trifles. — Susan Glaspell

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me. — Susan Glaspell

After all, you didn't stay what your people were. No, it was what you were yourself that counted - why, that was the very foundation of America, thought Brook. — Susan Glaspell

I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that. — Susan Glaspell

Come, little one, and let us learn of love. — Susan Glaspell

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time. — Susan Glaspell

And most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like ... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed. — Susan Glaspell

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it. — Susan Glaspell

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing. — Susan Glaspell

We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a wrong notion of things. — Susan Glaspell

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together. — Susan Glaspell

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other? — Susan Glaspell

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words. — Susan Glaspell

All the rest of it has been so nice and even. And look at this! It's all over the place! Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about! (After she has said this they look at each other, then start to glance back at the door. After an instant MRS HALE has pulled at a knot and ripped the sewing.) — Susan Glaspell

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house. — Susan Glaspell

I wonder if she was goin' to quilt it or just knot it? — Susan Glaspell

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.
Susan Glaspell, author — Susan Glaspell

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day. — Susan Glaspell

She moved from that chair to this one over here (pointing to a small chair in the corner) — Susan Glaspell

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness. — Susan Glaspell

Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were. — Susan Glaspell

We are living now.
We shall not live long.
No one should tell us we shall live again.
This is our little while.
This is our chance. — Susan Glaspell

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship. — Susan Glaspell

But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him - (shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone, — Susan Glaspell

You're convinced that there was nothing important here - nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. — Susan Glaspell

This is cherries, too. (looking again) I declare I believe that's the only one. — Susan Glaspell

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years. — Susan Glaspell

She - come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself - real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and - fluttery. — Susan Glaspell

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy. — Susan Glaspell

She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany. — Susan Glaspell

They wonder if she was going to quilt it or just knot it! (The men laugh, the women look abashed.) — Susan Glaspell

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit. — Susan Glaspell

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless. — Susan Glaspell

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good. — Susan Glaspell

Nothing here but kitchen things. — Susan Glaspell

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself. — Susan Glaspell

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish. — Susan Glaspell

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good. — Susan Glaspell

I - I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road. — Susan Glaspell

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men. — Susan Glaspell