Elizabeth Goudge Quotes About Spring

Quotes about: Spring

• She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Easter, Spring, Long

  "The White Witch".

• As this world becomes increasingly ugly, callous and materialistic it needs to be reminded that the old fairy stories are rooted in truth, that imagination is of value, that happy endings do, in fact, occur, and that the blue spring mist that make an ugly street look beautiful is just as real a thing as the street itself.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Beautiful, Spring, Real

• In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Should Have, Boredom

  Elizabeth Goudge (2012). “The Rosemary Tree”, p.76, Hachette UK

• Nothing is ever finished and done with in this world. You may think a seed was finished and done with when it falls like a dead thing into the earth; but when it puts forth leaves and flowers next spring you see your mistake.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Mistake, Flower

• autumn days have a holiness that spring lacks ... They are like old serene saints for whom death has lost its terror.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Spring, Autumn, Saint

  Elizabeth Goudge (1948). “Pilgrim's Inn”

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