Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
Olive SchreinerOne has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
Olive SchreinerNow we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.
Olive SchreinerMy feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Olive Schreiner