Jane Austen on Life
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Jane Austen, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
This page displays 7 quotations attributed to Jane Austen and filed under "life" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #5678: "I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
Attributed to Jane Austen, entry #3894: "...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
7 Quotes by Jane Austen on Life
"I will not say that your mulberry-trees are dead, but I am afraid they are not alive."
"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like."
"Without music, life would be a blank to me."
"Many thanks for your kind care for my health; I certainly have not been well for many weeks, and about a week ago I was very poorly. I have had a good deal of fever at times, and indifferent nights; but I am considerably better now and am recovering my looks a little, which have been bad enough — black and white, and every wrong colour. I must not depend upon being ever very blooming again. Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life."
"It would have amused you to see our progress. We went up by Sion Hill, and returned across the fields. In climbing a hill Mrs. Chamberlayne is very capital; I could with difficulty keep pace with her, yet would not flinch for the world. On plain ground I was quite her equal. And so we posted away under a fine hot sun, she without any parasol or any shade to her hat, stopping for nothing, and crossing the churchyard at Weston with as much expedition as if we were afraid of being buried alive."