# Quote — Olive Schreiner, The Story of an African Farm

> “There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”

- Author: [Olive Schreiner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner.md)
- Book: [The Story of an African Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Olive_Schreiner#The_Story_of_an_African_Farm_(1883)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/there-are-some

## More from this book

> “On the path to truth, at every step, you set your foot down on your own heart.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/on-the-path.md)

> “If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/if-the-bird.md)

> We have been so blinded by thinking and feeling that we have never seen the World.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/olive-schreiner/the-story-of-an-african-farm/we-have-been.md)