Maggy Jain > Maggy's Quotes

“Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.”
― Alan Watts

“A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.”
― Alan Watts

“A life's impact can be measured by what it gives and what it leaves behind, but it can also be measured by what it steals from the world.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“It isn’t fair to be the kind of creature who is able to love but unable to stay.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“But there won’t be any more journeys after this one, no more oceans explored. And maybe that’s why I am filled with calm. My life has been a migration without a destination, and that in itself is senseless. I leave for no reason, just to be moving, and it breaks my heart a thousand times, a million.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“It’s not life I’m tired of, with its astonishing ocean currents and layers of ice and all the delicate feathers that make up a wing. It’s myself.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“I don't know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Migrations

“A thing can be true and not the truth,”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“A girl was like a kite; without her mother's strong, steady hold on the string, she might just float away, be lost somewhere among the clouds.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“Like all motherless girls, Leni would become an emotional explorer, trying to uncover the lost part of her, the mother who carried and nurtured and loved her. Leni would become both mother and child; to her, mama would still grow and age. She would never be gone, not as long as Leni remembered her.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“She knew what nightmares could do to a person and how bad memories could change who you were.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Great Alone

“I want to be inside your darkest everything”
― Frida Kahlo, The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
― Rebecca Martin

“Wordless,
Infinite —
You.
You intensify
everything.
You are
fire
burning
all that
is left
of my
heart.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I want to be inside your darkest everything.”
― Frida Kahlo

“There are languages without words and violence is one of them.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“I don’t have anything to give you.” “Then take from me. I have more than enough.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“I think he must be a good man. But nobody is only one thing.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

“Pride must be the ability to die in agony as if you did it every day, gracefully. Even his pride in her was anger.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“He sat in another season - spring time, maybe - beneath a separate sun whose rays ended at the periphery of her eyesight, her reality.”
― Joanne Greenberg, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.”
― Willa Cather

“Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.”
― Willa Cather

“People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.”
― Willa Cather, My Mortal Enemy

“Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.”
― Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark

“There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.”
― Willa Sibert Cather, O Pioneers!

“People have to snatch at happiness when they can, in this world. It is always easier to lose than to find.”
― Willa Cather, O Pioneers!