“the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness of the present - the new chance.”
More from Jeanette Winterson on Life
“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”
“The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.”
“Every journey conceals another journey within its lines: the path not taken and the forgotten angle.”
“I am good at walking away. Rejection teaches you how to reject.”
“We live as best we may in a world of worms.”
“The journey is about coming home....There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail." (p. 220,222)”
“I seem to have run in a great circle, and met myself again on the starting line.”
“She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”