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Sarah Manguso Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“Inner beauty can fade, too.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Quote of the Moment, beauty, Personality, Sad
“But to pay attention is to love everything.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Love, Life, Attention, Direction, one perfect sentence, Affirm Everything, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“Depression doesn’t just steal the depressed person’s capacity for joy. It throws its mantle over everything he has ever done and everything he could ever do. The depressed person dies not to save himself from the world but to save the world from himself. In this case the word depression makes clear sense; he is pressed down, forever.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Depression, Wordplay, Unable To Continue
“Why do I need to read sixty minutes in the morning, and swim twenty laps in the afternoon, and write a thousand words at night, in order to feel that a twenty-four-hour period has been well used?”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Identity, Optimization, What Is A Good Day?, How Should A Person Spend Their Time, Addicted To Efficiency, Time
“Preferable to accepting one's insignificance is imagining the others hate you.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Insecurity, insignificance, Hatred, Self-Esteem, Self-Concept, Projection
“Narratives in which one thing follows from the previous thing are usually imaginary.”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Narrative Fallacy
“Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of the self. ”
— Sarah Manguso, The Two Kinds of Decay: A Memoir
Tagged: Identity, Self Boundaries
“My least favorite received idea about writing is that one must find one's voice, as if it's there inside you, ready to be turned on like a player piano. Like character, its very existence depends on interaction with the world.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Writing, character, Finding Your Voice, Creativity, Creation
“The aftershocks of the first time last forever. One might take this as permission not to finish anything.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: first time, First Love, Change, Finishing Things
“There were people I wanted so much before I had them that the entire experience of having them was grief for my old hunger.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Grief, Change, Desire, Lust
“Every new routine begins in desperation. And ends in a different desperation.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Change, Moving On, Routine, Endings, Beginnings
“Maybe the best way to remember anything accurately is to write it down and forget it, and then, only at the last moment of your life, to recall it—like listening to a broken tape by hand-feeding it one last time through the tape player.”
— Sarah Manguso, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary
Tagged: Remembering Things, Memory
“Happiness begins to deteriorate once it is named.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Happiness, Joy
“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Identity, You're not a beautiful and unique snowflake, Quote of the Moment, H4D-01
“Bad art is from no one to no one.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: Art, Creativity, Creation, Making Art
“Interesting people aren't interested in appearing interesting.”
— Sarah Manguso, 300 Arguments: Essays
Tagged: People, character, being interesting
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