Marina Keegan famous quotes

04-23-2025

What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over.
-- Marina Keegan

#Life #Starting Over #Mind
What we have to remember is that we can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over. Get a post-bac or try writing for the first time. The notion that it's too late to do anything is comical. It's hilarious. We're graduating college. We're so young. We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
-- Marina Keegan

#Inspirational #Motivational #Writing
I will live for love and the rest will take care of itself
-- Marina Keegan

#Care #Take Care
We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.
-- Marina Keegan

#Love #Loneliness #Opposites
Do you wanna leave soon? No, I want enough time to be in love with everything... And I cry because everything is so beautiful and so short.
-- Marina Keegan

#Beautiful #Want #Enough Time
We can't, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.
-- Marina Keegan

#Possibility #Ends
I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.
-- Marina Keegan

#Art #Trying #Enough
The middle of the universe is tonight, is here, And everything behind is a sunk cost.
-- Marina Keegan

#Tonight #Cost #Middle
We have these impossibly high standards and we'll probably never live up to our perfect fantasies of our future selves. But I feel like that's okay.
-- Marina Keegan

#Self #Perfect #Perspective
But it became clear very quickly that I'd underestimated how much I liked him. Not him, perhaps, but the fact that I had someone on the other end of an invisible line. Someone to update and get updates from, to inform of a comic discovery, to imagine while dancing in a lonely basement, and to return to, finally, when the music stopped.
-- Marina Keegan

#Love #Lonely #Discovery
I want enough time to be in love with everythingÂ .Â .Â .
-- Marina Keegan

#Enough Time #Want #Enough
So what I'm trying to say is you should text me back. Because there's a precedent. Because there's an urgency. Because there's a bedtime. Because when the world ends I might not have my phone charged and If you don't respond soon, I won't know if you'd wanna leave your shadow next to mine.
-- Marina Keegan

#Love #Phones #Shadow
I worry sometimes that humans are afraid of helping humans. There's less risk associated with animals, less fear of failure, fear of getting to involved.
-- Marina Keegan

#Animal #Worry #Risk
I plan on having parties when Iâ€™m 30. I plan on having fun when Iâ€™m old. Any notion of THE BEST years comes from clichÃ©d â€˜should haves â€˜if Iâ€™dâ€™ â€˜wish Iâ€™dâ€™
-- Marina Keegan

#Fun #Party #Years
Let's make something happen to this world.
-- Marina Keegan

#World #This World #Things Happen

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