# Quote — Willa Cather, The Professor's House

> He had never learned to live without delight. And he would have to learn to, just as, in a Prohibition country, he supposed he would have to learn to live without sherry. Theoretically he knew that life is possible, maybe even pleasant, without joy, without passionate griefs. But it had never occurred to him that he might have to live like that.

- Author: [Willa Cather](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather.md)
- Book: [The Professor's House](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Willa_Cather#The_Professor's_House_(1925)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house/he-had-never

## More from this book

> To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house/to-people-off.md)

> Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house/art-and-religion.md)

> A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/willa-cather/the-professors-house/a-work-room-should.md)