Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Hurt

Quotes about: Hurt

• I hated the things they believe in, the things they so innocently and charmingly pretended. I hated the sanctimonious piety that let people hurt helpless creatures. I hated the prayers and the hymns - the fountains and the red images that coloured their drab music, the fountains filled with blood, the sacrifice of the lamb.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Prayer, Believe

• . . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Dog, Hurt, Uncles

• Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Freedom, Long

• It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Hurt, Feelings, Difficult

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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