Essayists – Quotes

I suspect the most

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it’s no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love. Elizabeth Strout

I would like to

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent–and working at a pace so slow–that I would be able to hear myself living. Elizabeth Gilbert

There is hardly a

There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves. Elizabeth Gilbert

A true soul mate

A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. Elizabeth Gilbert

Wanderlust is not a passion for travel exactly, it’s something more animal and more fickle- more like lust. We don’t lust after very many things in life. We don’t need words like ‘worklust’ or ‘homemakinglust.’ But travel? The essayist Anatole Broyard put it perfectly: ‘Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful … Read more

Every moment is a

Every moment is a new beginning. Elie Wiesel

What hurts the victim

What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander. Elie Wiesel

We have voluntarily agreed

We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from … Read more

Special qualities are required

Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination. Flora Thompson

It is better to

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. Flannery O’Connor