Death had been more pitiful to them than longer life would have been. It had taken the one in the loyalty of love, and the other in the innocence of faith, from a world which for love has no recompense and for faith no fulfillment.

About This Quote

About Ouida

Ouida was a 19th-century English novelist. Maria Louise Ramé, going by the name Marie Louise de la Ramée and known by the pseudonym Ouida, was an English novelist. Ouida wrote more than 40 novels, as well as short stories, children's books and essays. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave

More quotes by Ouida

Related Quotes