Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest. Katherine Cecil Thurston More Quotes by Katherine Cecil Thurston More Quotes From Katherine Cecil Thurston Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone. Katherine Cecil Thurston great-love light love-is To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life. Katherine Cecil Thurston without-hope messages giving Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherein love undergoes the test absolute; in the fire of loss, grief softens to indifference or hardens to enduring need. Katherine Cecil Thurston grief loss men Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia. Katherine Cecil Thurston inspiration real adventure Most prisons have wide gates! Katherine Cecil Thurston gates wide prison by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible! Katherine Cecil Thurston mercy-of-god youth ideas Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest. Katherine Cecil Thurston florence cities made We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures. Katherine Cecil Thurston dreamer wake-up sometimes A good horse is the best company in the world. Katherine Cecil Thurston ikea horse world We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man! Katherine Cecil Thurston brother men two Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality. Katherine Cecil Thurston equality he-man men Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike not in the base earth. Katherine Cecil Thurston quality roots white A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities. Katherine Cecil Thurston journey night book An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon. Katherine Cecil Thurston rain book fall The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways. Katherine Cecil Thurston eye views stones The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned. Katherine Cecil Thurston accomplishment knowing adventure No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity. Katherine Cecil Thurston brevity simplicity weapons in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find. Katherine Cecil Thurston curious confidence world Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure. Katherine Cecil Thurston mark trade cynicism It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation! Katherine Cecil Thurston birth analysis death
