Susan Glaspell famous quotes

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Different #Kind #Different Kinds

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.
-- Susan Glaspell

#War #Writing #Together

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

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

#Inspirational #Children #Kids

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

#Doors #Resentment

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

#Water #Judging #Criticism

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

#Men #Past #Important

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

#Thinking #World #Firsts

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

#Denial #Hell #Suppression

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

#War #Long #Goes On

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

#Thinking #People #World

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

#Effort #Soul #Made

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

#Thinking #Sorrow #World

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?
-- Susan Glaspell

#Brave #Desert #Gone

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Light #May #Persons

To cease to love -- that is defeat.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Defeat

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Opportunity #Brotherhood #Democracy

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

#Thinking #Cherish #Grows

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

#Struggle #Heart #Conquer

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

#Artist #Care #Defeat

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

#Writing #People #Chicago

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

#Writing #Made #Newspapers

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Past #Half #Welcome

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Motivation #Vain #Spending

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

#Long #Littles #Chance

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

#Self #Half #Deny

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

#War #Men #Together

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

#Knowledge #Men #Thinking

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Time #Clock #Standards

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

#Hurt #Childhood #Ends

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

#Use #May #Sake

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

#Heart #Light #Feelings

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
-- Susan Glaspell

#Would Be #Reckless

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

#Time #Machines #Littles