Top 15 Willa Cather Quotes

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.

Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again — but it finds a tougher surface.

Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Isn’t it queer: there are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before; like the larks in this country, that have been singing the same five notes over for thousands of years.

The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.