Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Paul Auster

Quote by Paul Auster

Work

The Station Hill Blanchot Reader: Fiction & Literary Essays

Browse quotes and source details for this work. more

Author

Paul Auster
Paul Auster

Paul Auster is an American author known for his unique narrative style and philosophical reflections. His works often explore themes of identity, memory, and reality, and have won him a wide audience. more

You May Also Like

“On the sly, you observe the adults whose childhood lies inside them, torn and full of holes like a used and moth-eaten rug no one thinks about anymore or has any use for. You can’t tell by looking at them that they’ve had a childhood, and you don’t dare ask how they managed to make it through without their faces getting deeply scarred and marked by it. You suspect that they’ve used some secret shortcut and donned their adult form many years ahead of time. They did it one day when they were home alone and their childhood lay like three bands of iron around their heart, like Iron Hans in Grimms’ fairy tale, whose bands broke only when his master was freed. But if you don’t know such a shortcut, childhood must be endured and trudged through hour by hour, through an absolutely interminable number of years. Only death can free you from it, so you think a lot about death, and picture it as a white-robed, friendly angel who some night will kiss your eyelids so that they never will open again.”

DeathChildhood
Book:Childhood
Create image

“To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities that do not contribute to your success and you will never regret the path you select!”

SuccessPathSuccessfulGreatnessRegretActivitySucceedFood For ThoughtIsraelmore AyivorRejectionGreatNeglectSelectActPlanNeverSelectedStopAvoidPrepareActivitiesRejectContributeNever EverEschew
Book:The Great Hand Book of Quotes
Create image