Zoë Akins Quotes

Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.

The Greeks had a word for it.

I am the wind that wavers,
You are the certain land;
I am the shadow that passes
Over the sand.

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that—but that's the only way one can stay married.

Forgetting is the cost
Of living cheerfully.

And I wonder if peace is enough for any man. ...

Indifferent to all the fun of chance
I watched black spiders of inertia spin
The far-flung web which I was strangling in.

No one can ever help loving anyone.

I know not where I go; I scarcely feel
The menacing fatigue about my feet,
The skies that scourge, the distances that cheat, the constant wounds that never hurt nor heal.

And they shall know that in the ordering
Of every world to come the law shall read
That he who dares be lawless wears the wing Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead
On through the darkness to eventual light,
To undiscovered wealth, to newer need. ...

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Work alone qualifies us for life, Sentoni. It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

My life is like water that has gone over the dam and turned no mill wheels. Here I am, not happy, but not unhappy, as my days run on to the sea, idly—but not too swiftly—for I love living.

The nostalgia—
not of memories
But of what has never been!