Quotes from Louisa May Alcott

You have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead and ordinary life?

Jo leaned down to kiss the tranquil face, and with that silent kiss, she dedicated herself soul and body to Beth.

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will.

I think you will find someone and love them and you will live and die for them because that is your way and you will. And I'll watch…

I could never love anyone as I love my sisters.

a kind little thought, an unselfish little act, a cheery little word, are so sweet and comfortable, that no one can fail to feel their beauty and love the giver, no matter how small they are. Mothers do a deal of this sort of thing, unseen, unthanked, but felt and remembered long afterward, and never lost, for this is the simple magic that binds hearts together, and keeps home happy.

I want to do something splendid... Something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead... I think I shall write books.

Dirty old hole, isn't it? The dirt is picturesque so I don't mind.

I don't want a fashionable wedding, but only those about me whom I love, and to them I wish to look and be my familiar self.

Chide me not, laborious band, For the idle flowers I brought: Every aster in my hand Goes home laden with a thought.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Better lose your life than your soul.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it.

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life.

You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

I consider it the best part of an education to have been born and brought up in the country

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.