Quotes of Joyce Carol Oates

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It is only through disruptions and confusion that we grow, jarred out of ourselves by the collision of someone else's private world with our own.

- Joyce Carol Oates

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“ I love you and it’s getting worse. ”

- Joseph E. Morris

“ Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. ”

- John Updike

“ I believe in love the verb, not the noun. ”

- Greg Behrendt

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ Living with a purpose in life is more fulfilling than living a rich lifestyle without a purpose. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Morning is when the wick is lit. A flame ignited, the day delighted with heat and light, we start the fight for something more than before. ”

- Jeb Dickerson

“ I may not be where I want to be, but if I stop now, I'll NEVER get where I'm going! ”

- Laura Lynch

“ Often, we fabricate the people we love to make loving them more palatable; the fictionalized version of them reduces the awareness of truth. ”

- RJ Intindola

“ The past can't hurt you anymore. Not unless you let it. They made you into a victim, Evey. They made you into a statistic. But, that's not the real you. That's not who you are inside. ”

- Alan Moore

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Tucker strokes my hair. There's something so tender about the gesture. It might as well have been him whispering I love you. ”

- Cynthia Hand

“ the saddest thing is to be a minute to someone, when you've made them your eternity. ”

- Sanober Khan

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ I would die for you. But I won't live for you. ”

- Stephen Chbosky

“ I guess that’s just part of loving people: You have to give things up. Sometimes you even have to give them up. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ I am convinced that one should tell one's spiritual director if one has a great desire for Communion, for Our Lord does not come from Heaven every day to stay in a golden ciborium; He comes to find another heaven, the heaven of our soul in which He loves to dwell. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an everfixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand'ring bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken." (Sonnet 116) ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is a distinct, awful pain that comes with loving someone more than they love you. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ We're staying together," he promised. "You're not getting away from me. Never again. ”

- Rick Riordan

“ A lack of clarity could put the brakes on any journey to success. ”

- Steve Maraboli

“ If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ”

- Wanda E. Brunstetter

“ You left the same way you: with 6 duffle bags and your heart intact. ”

- Gandhi

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola