Quotessence
Home / Authors / Louise Glück
Louise Glück

Louise Glück Quotes

Poet

Filter quotes by topic

AllPoetryPoemLifeDeathLossLoveGriefChangeLouise GlückMindMourningThinkingWaitingAvernoDespairEarthGreek MythologyHumansHungerIfs

Famous Louise Glück Quotes

“As I turned over the last page, a wave of sorrow enveloped me. Where had they all gone, these people who had seemed so real? To distract myself, I walked out into the night; instinctively, I lit a cigarette. In the dark, the cigarette glowed, like a fire lit by a survivor. But who would see this light, this small dot among infinite stars? I stood awhile in the dark, the cigarette glowing and growing small, each breath patiently destroying me. How small it was, how brief. Brief, brief, but inside me now, which the stars could never be.”

LifeReadingExistence
Book:Faithful and Virtuous Night
Create image

“(after many years) we were still at that first stage, still preparing to begin a journey, but we were changed nevertheless; we could see this in one another; we had changed although we never moved, and one said, ah, behold how we have aged, traveling from day to night only, neither forward nor sideward, and this seemed in a strange way miraculous. And those who believed we should have a purpose believed this was the purpose, and those who felt we must remain free in order to encounter truth felt it had been revealed.”

LifeTruthPurposeTimeChange
Book:Faithful and Virtuous Night
Create image