Mary Boykin Chesnut Quotes

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

Is the sea drying up? It is going up into mist and coming down on us in this water spout, the rain. It raineth every day, and the weather represents our tearful despair on a large scale.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it ... They are too many for us. Everythign lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Threatened men live long.

Is anything worth it?

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world.

She died praying that she might die.

To think there are men who dare so defile a church, a sacred sanctuary dedicated to God. We have to hold up our skirts and walk tiptoe, so covered is the floor, the aisle and pews, with the dark shower of tobacco juice.

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend my time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.