To The Last Man (Annotated) Quotes

“Unhappiness is only a change. Happiness itself is only change. So what does it matter? The great thing is to see life--to understand--to feel--to work--to fight--to endure.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“Socialism reached into her mind, to be rejected. She had never understood it clearly, but it seemed to her a state of mind where dissatisfied men and women wanted to share what harder working or more gifted people possessed.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“ Carley saw two forces in life--the destructive and constructive. On the one side greed, selfishness, materialism: on the other generosity, sacrifice, and idealism.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“the false courage of association with a crowd.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“With distrust came suspicion and with suspicion came fear, and with fear came hate--and these, in already distorted minds, inflamed a hell.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“False education, false standards, false environment had developed her into a woman who imagined she must feed her body on the milk and honey of indulgence.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“We must dress to make other women jealous and to attract men.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“Oh, Glenn!--forgive--me! " she faltered. "I was only--talking. What do I know? Oh, I am blind--blind and little!”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“Once he had said to her that a man should never be judged by the result of his labors, but by the nature of his effort.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“Aunt Mary, you hurt my feelings."  "Well, child, I'm glad to learn your feelings are hurt," returned the aunt. "I'm sure, Carley, that underneath all this--this blase ultra something you've acquired, there's a real heart. Only you must hurry and listen to it--or--”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“But that never was true. Glenn was as sane as I am, and, my dear, that's pretty sane, I'll have you remember. But he must have suffered some terrible blight to his spirit--some blunting of his soul.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“Surely with all its greatness it could not be lost; surely in the end it must triumph over evil.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection

“And the reason that she did not falter and fail in this terrible situation was because her despair, great as it was, did not equal her love.”
― Zane Grey, To The Last Man (Annotated): A Western Collection