Lydia Millet Quotes

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.

We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.

Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.

We're so many, we're so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished.

Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.

The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.

Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity.

One man’s weakness is another man’s mercy.

Helplessness was the one true fountain of youth.

What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

Marriage is like the romantic ideal, and yet the trappings around it and the culture about it are really the opposite of that.