Same topic Authors
Quote of the day

America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world.

Popular Topics
Life Is Good, Inspiration, Journey, Smile, Passive, Oceans, Beauty, Art, Home, Dress, Fly, Hope, Weak, Pleasures Of Life, Job, Love, Movie Love, Wonder, Success, Knowledge, Like, Feeling, Poet, Butterfly, Value Of Life, Night, Feelings, Love You, Talent, Worry, Future, Jesus, Humble, Alien, Peace Love, Dream, Achievement, Life Is Like, English, Religion, Surprised, Subject, Thinking, Living My Life, Scholar, Fitness, Dance, Kindly, Ocean, Drama
Mark Doty

Even sad stories are company. And perhaps that's why you might read such a chronicle, to look into a companionable darkness that isn't yours.

Chronicle, Companionable, Darkness, Looks, Read, Stories
Same Author Quotes

Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person. The beloved dwells at the heart of the world, and becomes a Rome: the roads of feeling all lead to him, all proceed from him. Everything that touches us seems to relate back to that center: there is no other emotional life, no place outside the universe of feeling centered on its pivotal figure.

Grief, Heart, Being In Love, Person, Roads, Figure

Love, I think, is a gateway to the world, not an escape from it.

Gateway, Gateways, Think, Thinking, World

We long to connect; we fear that if we do, our freedom and individuality will disappear.

Disappear, Individuality, Long

Here and gone. That’s what it is to be human, I think—to be both someone and no one at once, to hold a particular identity in the world (our names, our place of origins, our family and affectional ties) and to feel that solid set of ties also capable of dissolution, slipping away, as we become moments of attention.

Identity, Names, Particular, Thinking, Ties

The physical reinvention of the world is endless, relentless, fascinating, exhaustive; nothing that seems solid is. If you could stand at just a little distance in time, how fluid and shape-shifting physical reality would be, everything hurrying into some other form, even concrete, even stone.

Distance, Reality, Shifting, Stand, Stone, World
Similar Quotes