Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Donna Tartt

Quote by Donna Tartt

“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”

Quote by Donna Tartt

Create image

Author

Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt

Donna Tartt is an American author known for her unique narrative style and profound psychological descriptions. Her works are characterized by complex characters and captivating plots. Her debut novel, 'The Goldfinch,' received widespread acclaim and won multiple literary awards. more

You May Also Like

“We looked at each other. And it occurred to me that despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such oddball and unthwartable faith in what, in childhood, he had liked to call “the Planet of Earth.”

PeopleWorldReasonMomentsEarthFeltChildhoodPlanetsMetsMovedFaultsDespiteContemptSpectacularVigorousOddballs
Author:Donna Tartt
Create image

“And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.”

MindBelieveDoeArtTwoDifferentHandsRealitySpaceMagicMiddleIllusionEdgesSurfaceStrikesZoneRainbowBlur
Author:Donna Tartt
Create image

“I need some beef and broccoli before I face any more Mr. Darcy. It's a truth universally acknowledged that if you watch too much television on am empty stomach, your head falls off." "If your head fall off, " Tessa said, "the hairdressing industry would go into an economic meltdown”

IfsNeedsSaidFacesFallWatchesToo MuchEconomicTelevisionIndustryEmptyStomachBeefMagnus BaneBroccoliDarcyMeltdownsEmpty StomachHairdressing
Book:The Bane Chronicles
Create image