Augusta Evans Quotes

#1. It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Augusta Jane Evans

#2. Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

Augusta Jane Evans

#3. dependable as only incredibly dull things can be,

Michael R. Fletcher

#4. Oh, Duty is an icy shadow!

Augusta Jane Evans

#5. Oh! what a luxury it is to weep, / And find in tears a sad relief!

Augusta Jane Evans

#6. Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Augusta Jane Evans

#7. That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Kane

#8. good friends are like stars you don't always see them but you know they are there.

Christy Evans

#9. I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Morrissey

#10. Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

Augusta Jane Evans

#11. Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun.

Augusta Jane Evans

#12. I don't write for children. I write and someone says it's for children.

Maurice Sendak

#13. Poetry is the purest form of insanity.

Augusta Jane Evans

#14. All things are dark to sorrow.

Augusta Jane Evans

#15. Should I get my violin out? I feel this little chat of yours needs an accompanying rhapsody.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. I couldn't help but ask myself if I was doing the smart thing. I wasn't, but sometimes the smart thing wasn't the same thing as the right thing

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#17. We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

Heinrich Himmler

#18. The only wards I ever knew happen to be fictitious characters."--Augusta Evans Wilson, VASHTI, (1869).

Sheryl Wright Stinchcum

#19. If a man's innate self-respect will not save him from habitual, disgusting intoxication, all the female influences in the universe would not avail. Man's will, like woman's, is stronger than the affection, and, once subjugated by vice, all eternal influences will be futile.

Augusta Jane Evans

#20. It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.

Yann Martel