Sarah Manguso famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Writing #Self #Dimensions
Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Moving #Body #Infinite
You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Moving #Guessing #Brightness
Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything
-- Sarah Manguso
Experience in itself wasnâ€™t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing Iâ€™d missed it.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Defense #Diaries #Wake Up
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and everyone I know,
-- Sarah Manguso

#Running #Privilege #Time Passing
I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.
-- Sarah Manguso

#People #Empathy #Mastery
The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.
-- Sarah Manguso

#People #Records #Too Much
This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Suffering #Important #Attention
Look at me, dancing my little dance for a few moments against the background of eternity.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Dancing #Littles #Looks
Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Anxiety #Might #Inability
My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Arrows #Light #Forever
If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Thinking
Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.
-- Sarah Manguso

#Moving #Sea #Littles

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