Quotes of Joyce Carey

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My novels point out that the world consists entirely of exceptions.

- Joyce Carey

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“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. ”

- Erica Jong

“ Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of. ”

- Roy T. Bennett

“ Nothing is over for good! You either take with you memories, love, lesson or an experience. ”

- Somya Kedia

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love. ”

- Sigmund Freud

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Is there any positive energy like enthusiasm? ”

- Lailah Gifty Akita

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews

“ All things are difficult before they are easy. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ If you fuel your journey on the opinions of others, you are going to run out of gas. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Legacy is greater than currency ”

- Gary Vaynerchuk

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ sometimes the unknown is better for all involved ”

- Azelene Williams

“ How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. ”

- Shel Silverstein

“ Love cannot be hidden. It even shines in the darkest places." ~ Carla Olson Gade, The Shadow Catcher's Daughter ”

- Carla Olson Gade