Ellen Glasgow Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Ideas, Flying

• Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Imagination, Fiction

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, Pamela R. Matthews (2005). “Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with Women”, p.161, University of Virginia Press

• To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Ideas, Flying

• Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Age, Youth

  Ellen Glasgow (1900). “The Descendant”

• ... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Reality, Illumination, Mind

• ... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Life, Reality, Earth

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