Olive Schreiner Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Flower, Blood

  Olive Schreiner (2013). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.208, Courier Corporation

• Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one that we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of - the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Father, Two

  Olive Schreiner (1973). “A track to the water's edge: the Olive Schreiner reader”, HarperCollins Publishers

• There are only two things that are absolute realities, love and knowledge, and you can't escape them.

  Olive Schreiner

  Love, Reality, Two

  Olive Schreiner (1986). “The Woman's Rose: Stories and Allegories”, Ad Donker Publishers

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