English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:
Rebecca West Quotes

Rebecca West quotes about life

Irish Author December 21, 1892 – March 15, 1983

Rebecca West quotes in french
Rebecca West quotes in german
 Cite this Page: Citation

Quotes

Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that we are going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred. Rebecca West
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations. Rebecca West
A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power..."
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived. Rebecca West
She did not suddenly start being disagreeable this afternoon, she was so good at it, she had evidently practised whatever are the scales and arpeggios of rudeness every day of her life. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music..."
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is. Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was..."
she repaid us by giving life the quality that but for her was only to be found in music Rebecca West
Rebecca West quote: "Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose..."
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. Rebecca West

Popular Author

Related Authors