Susan Glaspell Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

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.

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

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

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

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.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

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

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.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

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

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.

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 - ?