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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“We never know how we love til we try to unlove.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
Tagged: Love, Falling Out Of Love, Heart Break, Knowing love
“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Death, Life, Pain, Sadness
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes: Or, the Insignificant Little Habits Which Mar Domestic Happiness
Tagged: Tears, Unsaid words, Unsaid Feelings, Missed Chances
“When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean
And billows wild contend with angry roar,
'T is said, far down beneath the wild commotion
That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Hymn
Tagged: Peace, Stillness
“It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
Tagged: maturity, Faith, Belief, Doubt, Trust, Honesty
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Optimism, Journey, Night
“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
Tagged: Women, Writing, Value, Life
“Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Sublime, Mind, Dominion, strength
“Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Blood, Cruelty, Truth
“Perhaps you laugh too, dear reader; but you know humanity comes out in a variety of strange forms now-a-days, and there is no end to the odd things that humane people will say and do.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: laugh, humanity, odd, Humane
“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.’”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, 10 Powerful Suicide Prevention Quotes
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Waiting For The Tide To Turn, perseverance, Holding On
“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Youth, Old Women, Age
“Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Treatment, manhood
“Human nature is above all things — lazy.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Household Papers and Stories
Tagged: Human Nature, laziness
“Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Minister's Wooing
Tagged: Love, Beautiful, Sad
“All men are free and equal, in the grave.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Freedom, Equality, Death
“The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison
Tagged: Truth, Patience, Inquiry, Faith
“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine
Tagged: Truth, kindness, Gift
“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Mind, Sorrow, Good Actions
“For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one's feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again—still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions—pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin
Tagged: Tough Love, Moving On
“People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All the work that a man can do that can be rested by one night's sleep is good for him, but fatigue that goes into the next day is always bad.”
— Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks
Tagged: Sin, eating, Fitness, Fatigue, Work
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