Sunset Song Quotes

“there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“Folk said he had once been a scholar and written books and learned and learned till his brain fair softened and right off his head he'd gone and into the poorhouse asylum.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“So it was that she knew she liked him, loved him as they said in the soppy English books, you were shamed and a fool to say that in Scotland.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“With them we may say there died a thing older than themselves, these were the Last of the Peasants, the last of the Old Scots folk. A new generation comes up that will know them not, except as a memory in a song...”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“You can do without the day if you’ve a lamp quiet-lighted and kind in your heart.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song

“you’ve hardly to look at a woman these days but she’s in the family way.”
― Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, The First Book of A Scots Quair