Quote

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elizabeth Gilbert
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: July 18
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
Waterbury
Connecticut
Idea
Didn
Ideas
Confess
Would
Prisoner
Stranger
Complete
Committed
Crime

More quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

Image
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I wondered, Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I want to explore the art of pleasure in Italy, the art of devotion in India and, in Indonesia, the art of balancing the two. It was only later, after admitting this dream, that I noticed the happy coincidence that all these countries begin with the letter I. A fairly auspicious sign, it seemed, on a voyage of self-discovery.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to anyone else. Only then are you free to serve and enjoy other people.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and I myself have been abandoned by those whom I begged to stay.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happiness into the hands of one mere person. Keeping that going is hard work.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
God dwells within you, as you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we are afraid of change, of things crumbling to ruins. Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
There is hardly a more gracious gift that we can offer somebody than to accept them fully, to love them almost despite themselves.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
Your fear is the most boring thing about you.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to share it with anyone, for fear of criticism.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
You must find another reason to work, other than the desire for success or recognition. It must come from another place.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Image
I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.
Elizabeth Gilbert