List of Rose Wilder Lane Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 43 inspiring quotes by Rose Wilder Lane.

About Rose Wilder Lane

  • Born: December 5, 1886
  • Died: October 30, 1968
  • Occupation: Journalist
    • I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. it's this not wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.
    Letting Go Men Self
    The prairies were dust. day after day, summer after summer, the scorching winds blew the dust and the sun was brassy in a yellow sky. crop after crop failed. again and again the barren land must be mortgaged for taxes and food and next year's seed. the agony of hope ended when there was not harvest and no more credit, no money to pay interest and taxes; the banker took the land. then the bank failed.
    Summer Dust Years
    I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. i want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," i must kill myself. if she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and i will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.
    Mother Cutting Years
    The first twenty years of my life were wasted. i didn't fit my environment, and i didn't know any other.
    Years Twenties Firsts
    I so much like real things - the realities that come naturally from the depths of us like - what shall i say? - the way trees grow, from some inner essential principle of them, just expressing itself.
    Real Tree Principles
    Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.
    Taken Fog Life Is
    All men are brothers and each man is free.
    Brother Men
    The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere.
    Real Protection Property
    A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.
    Kissing Eggs Mustache
    Two deep human desires were at war ... the longing for stability, for form, for permanence, which in its essence is the desire for death, and the opposing hunger for movement, change, instability and risk, which are life. men came from the east and built these american towns because they wished to go no farther, and the towns they built were shaped by the urge to go onward.
    War Men Essence
    As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. i have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
    Learning Thinking Long
    Writing fiction is an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it.
    Writing Effort Quality
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