Life Quotes Quote by Jeanette Winterson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home. I want to be held. I don't want you to come too close. I want you to scoop me up and bring me home at nights. I don't want to tell you where I am. I want to keep a place among the rocks where no one can find me. I want to be with you.”

“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death.”

“And what is enlightenment anyway but delusions we can live with?”

“A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.”

“I felt like a thief with a bagful of stolen glances.”

“Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.”

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”

“They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!”

“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”

“Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.”

““Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students."”

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias.”