Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.
Michael Cunningham
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Michael Cunningham
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 6
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
University Teacher
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bears
Choice
Choices
Hours
Death
Chose
Doe
Bear
Mean
Regret
Life
More quotes by Michael Cunningham
Her cake is a failure, but she is loved anyway. She is loved, she thinks, in more or less the way the gifts will be appreciated: because they have been given with good intentions , because they exist, because they are part of a world in which one wants what one gets.
Michael Cunningham
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes.
Michael Cunningham
a certain bohemian, good-witch sort of charm
Michael Cunningham
we become the stories we tell ourselves
Michael Cunningham
The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.
Michael Cunningham
We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?
Michael Cunningham
I am beginning to understand the true difference between youth and age. Young people have time to make plans and think of new ideas. Older people need their whole energy to keep up with what’s already been set in motion.
Michael Cunningham
This is what you do. You make a future for yourself out of the raw material at hand.
Michael Cunningham
I think of the people who commit these acts as children. They're in their 20s, but like certain children, they have been told only one story, over and over. Like most children, they believe in an easily identifiable good and evil, and like most children, they are capable of unthinkable cruelty.
Michael Cunningham
Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?
Michael Cunningham
I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been.
Michael Cunningham
Venture too far for love, she tells herself, and you renounce citizenship in the country you've made for yourself.
Michael Cunningham
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you.
Michael Cunningham
Please, God, send me something to adore.
Michael Cunningham
Here is the world, and you live in it, and are grateful. You try to be grateful.
Michael Cunningham
Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.
Michael Cunningham
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
Michael Cunningham
Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for what it is. At last to know it. To love it for what it is, and then, to put it away. Leonard. Always the years between us. Always the years. Always the love. Always the hours.
Michael Cunningham
Love is deep, a mystery - who wants to understand its every particular?
Michael Cunningham
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
Michael Cunningham
