Quotes by : Florida Scott-Maxwell

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved?

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have....

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure....

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested....

...[T]here are days when emptiness is spacious, and non-existence elevating.

No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

Life does not accommodate you; it shatters you. Every seed destroys its container, or else there would....

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my....

I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easier...".....

I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has....