Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
29 quotes • Non-Fiction Author • Age 85
"The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning."
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
"...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."
"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
"Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…"
"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."
"Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good."
"Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be."
"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."
"For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled."
"The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end."