Quotes by Olive Schreiner

“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so carefully shut? Why not open it, only a little? Do they know there is many a bird will not break ...”

“My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.”

“I would like to say to the men and women of the generations which will come after us: you will look back at us with astonishment. You will wonder at passionate struggles that accomplished so little...”

“If you are an artist, may no love of wealth or fame or admiration and no fear of blame or misunderstanding make you ever paint, with pen or brush, an ideal of external life otherwise than as you se...”

“[O]nly the sea is like a human being . . .always moving, always something deep in itself is stirring it. It never rests; it is always wanting, wanting, wanting. It hurries on; and then it creeps ba...”

“No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.”

“Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.”

“There is nothing ridiculous in love.”

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

“I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.”

“We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.”

“There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.”

“We bear the world and we make it.... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.”

“The surest sign of fitness is success.”

“I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.”

“Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. ”

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

“I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.”

“There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.”

“I know there will be spring as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.”