Olive Schreiner Quotes
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.
If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?
Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.
The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.
I know there will be spring, as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.
It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.
Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.
God said, 'When one man and one woman shine together, it makes the most perfect light.
I am always thirsting for beautiful, beautiful, beautiful music. I wish I could make it. Perhaps there isn't any music on earth like what I picture to myself.
We were equals once when we lay new-born babes on our nurse's knees. We will be equal again when they tie up our jaws for the last sleep.
There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.
There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.
They are called finishing-schools and the name tells accurately what they are. They finish everything.
A word may become so defiled by bad use that it will take a century before it can be purifed, and brought into use again.
For those of us who have a ground of knowledge which we cannot transmit to outsiders, it is perhaps more profitable to act fearlessly than to argue.
One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.
A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea.
The nations which have received and in any way dealt fairly and mercifully with the Jew have prospered, and the nations that have tortured and oppressed him have written out their own curse.
Marriage for love is the most beautiful external symbol of the union of souls; marriage without it is the least clean traffic that defiles the world.
There are only two things that are absolute realities love and knowledge and you can't escape them.
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.
We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.