Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• There is no such thing as freedom on earth," he said. "Only different kinds of bondages. And comparative bondages. YOU think you are free now because you've escaped from a peculiarly unbreakable kind of bondage. But are you? You love me - THAT'S a bondage.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Thinking, Different, Earth

• When I think something nice is going to happen I seem to fly right up on the wings of anticipation; and then the first thing I realize I drop down to earth with a thud. But really, Marilla, the flying part is glorious as long as it lasts. . . it's like soaring through a sunset. I think it almost pays for the thud.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Nice, Sunset, Thinking

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.426, Jazzybee Verlag

• All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Twilight, Two, Dwelling

• The little things of life, sweet and excellent in their place, must not be the things lived for; the highest must be sought and followed; the life of heaven must be begun here on earth.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Heaven, Earth

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of the Island”, p.107, Youcanprint

• Welcome, Anne. I thought you'd come today. You belong to the afternoon so it brought you. Things that belong together are sure to come together. What a lot of trouble that would save some people if they only knew it. But they don't...and so they waste beautiful energy moving heaven and earth to bring things together that don't belong.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Beautiful, Moving, People

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne of Avonlea”, p.235, First Avenue Editions

• When people ask me what on earth I want to keep two cats for I tell them I keep them to do my resting for me.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Cat, Two, People

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (1992). “The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery: 1921-1929”, Oxford University Press, USA

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