quotes i like

Nobody knows you.
You don’t know yourself.
And I, who am half in love with you,
What am I in love with?
My own imaginings?

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they’ve got to come. You can’t force them.