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Top 25 Dorothy Gilman Quotes (2024 Update)

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.”

1. “A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “The best things arrive on time.”

2. “The best things arrive on time.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Sometimes I think we’re all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we’re okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.”

3. “Sometimes I think we’re all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we’re okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel – nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”

4. “If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel – nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.”

5. “We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “There are no happy endings there are only happy people.”

6. “There are no happy endings there are only happy people.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.”

7. “What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something wrong, stop to set it right, and emerge an hour or two later breathless, contented, and wondering what on earth happened.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “I have a flexible mind – I believe it’s one of the advantages of growing old,” she explained. “I find youth quite rigid at times.”

8. “I have a flexible mind – I believe it’s one of the advantages of growing old,” she explained. “I find youth quite rigid at times.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.”

9. “People need dreams, there’s as much nourishment in them as food.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “It’s compassion that makes gods of us.”

10. “It’s compassion that makes gods of us.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “It’s when we’re given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.”

11. “It’s when we’re given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Should. Ought. Scenarios again, she thought crossly, which was how the mind persistently worked, using facts and assumptions left over from the past to draw conclusions that were frequently in error.”

12. “Should. Ought. Scenarios again, she thought crossly, which was how the mind persistently worked, using facts and assumptions left over from the past to draw conclusions that were frequently in error.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.”

13. “Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.”

14. “When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “It wasn’t that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit.”

15. “It wasn’t that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.”

16. “If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they’re fresh and unformed...”

17. “Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they’re fresh and unformed...”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “In the morning when Mrs. Pollifax awoke she realized at once that a fateful day was beginning. She lay and thought about this dispassionately, almost wonderingly, because to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one’s hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God. There was nothing to do but accept, and from this to proceed, doing the very best that could be done.”

18. “In the morning when Mrs. Pollifax awoke she realized at once that a fateful day was beginning. She lay and thought about this dispassionately, almost wonderingly, because to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one’s hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God. There was nothing to do but accept, and from this to proceed, doing the very best that could be done.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “It wasn’t that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?”

19. “It wasn’t that she had so much character, thought Mrs. Pollifax, but rather that always in her life she had found it difficult to submit. The list of her small rebellions was endless. Surely there was room for one more?”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “But this was exactly the age, she thought, when life ought to be spent, not hoarded. There had been enough years of comfortable living, and complacency was nothing but delusion. One could not always change the world, she felt, but one could change oneself.”

20. “But this was exactly the age, she thought, when life ought to be spent, not hoarded. There had been enough years of comfortable living, and complacency was nothing but delusion. One could not always change the world, she felt, but one could change oneself.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity – births, widowhood, illnesses – and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one’s death as well.”

21. “Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity – births, widowhood, illnesses – and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one’s death as well.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “There was nothing rational about a wall, whether it encircled Berlin, San Quentin or the ghettos of Warsaw. A wall was a symbol, fortified as much by the idea behind it as by bricks and guns.”

22. “There was nothing rational about a wall, whether it encircled Berlin, San Quentin or the ghettos of Warsaw. A wall was a symbol, fortified as much by the idea behind it as by bricks and guns.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one’s deficiencies.”

23. “Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one’s deficiencies.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “I mean, have you ever stopped to realize – not just the miracle that life is – but how basically comic it is despite its griefs? The wonder of it, as Amman Singh says, is that we take it so seriously. One day, poised on my tightrope, I hope to manage a glorious cartwheel, or at the very least a pirouette.”

24. “I mean, have you ever stopped to realize – not just the miracle that life is – but how basically comic it is despite its griefs? The wonder of it, as Amman Singh says, is that we take it so seriously. One day, poised on my tightrope, I hope to manage a glorious cartwheel, or at the very least a pirouette.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “That’s what terrorism is, basically – pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.”

25. “That’s what terrorism is, basically – pure theater. Nothing in particular is ever accomplished by it, other than to focus attention on a small group of people who seize absolute power by threatening everything that holds civilization together.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “The important thing is to carry the sun with you, inside of you at every moment, against the darkness. For there will be a great and terrifying darkness.”

26. “The important thing is to carry the sun with you, inside of you at every moment, against the darkness. For there will be a great and terrifying darkness.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “Do you like Magda too?” His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. “She seems pleasant enough when she’s not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn’t she?” He.”

27. “Do you like Magda too?” His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. “She seems pleasant enough when she’s not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn’t she?” He.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “But that is precisely what life is, wouldn’t you agree? Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice? And isn’t it free choice that makes individuals of us? We are eternally free to choose ourselves and our futures. I believe myself that life is quite comparable to a map like this, a constant choice of direction and route.”

28. “But that is precisely what life is, wouldn’t you agree? Everything is a matter of choice, and when we choose are we not gambling on the unknown and its being a wise choice? And isn’t it free choice that makes individuals of us? We are eternally free to choose ourselves and our futures. I believe myself that life is quite comparable to a map like this, a constant choice of direction and route.”

— Dorothy Gilman

Dorothy Gilman Quote: “But a certain perspective is needed about tragedies, Betsy, for they happen to nearly everyone. Eventually you have to learn, try to learn, that it’s the eternal things that matter, and among them courage.”

29. “But a certain perspective is needed about tragedies, Betsy, for they happen to nearly everyone. Eventually you have to learn, try to learn, that it’s the eternal things that matter, and among them courage.”

— Dorothy Gilman

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