Quote

Sorrow has a name, and its name is loneliness. Sorrow has a shape, and its shape is absence. Sorrow is a sickness like any other.

Gregory Maguire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Name
Names
Like
Sickness
Loneliness
Shape
Absence
Shapes
Sorrow

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
Light will blind us in time, but what we learn in the dark can see us through.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?
Gregory Maguire
Image
The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the soul. Redemption and condemnation time. For the soul, each instant is always a minute short of judgment.
Gregory Maguire
Image
No one survives in times of war unless they make war their home. How did I get so old and wise, but for welcoming war into my house and making friends with him? Better to befriend the enemy and hang on. Something worse might come along, which might be amusing or might not.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
Gregory Maguire
Image
In summer moonlight, she was dangerously, inebriatingly magnified.
Gregory Maguire
Image
We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.
Gregory Maguire
Image
So she listened hard. And she began to evolve, because stories work their magic that way. They build conviction and erode conviction in equal measure.
Gregory Maguire
Image
If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, that might be the best way to die.
Gregory Maguire
Image
The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.
Gregory Maguire
Image
So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Gregory Maguire
Image
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
Gregory Maguire
Image
She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.
Gregory Maguire
Image
To consider what other people might say is hardly a good reason to take action or to defer it. You have your own life to live, Iris, and at its end, the only opinion that amounts to anything is that which God bestows
Gregory Maguire
Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
Gregory Maguire
Image
What goes unnamed remains hard to correct.
Gregory Maguire