Donna Levin > Donna's Quotes

“The light at the end of the tunnel is just the light of an oncoming train.”
― Robert Lowell

“How quick, brutal, and fragile is life. You are born, you live a few years in wild hope, then you are dragged back into the night. You might have breathed on a little longer, had you not dared think yourself a human creature instead of an engine of muscle and bone.”
― Donna Gillespie, The Light Bearer

“Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.”
― Donna Gillespie, The Light Bearer

“Happiness is not having what you want. It is wanting what you have.”
― Rabbi Hyman Schachtel

“There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."

'Mona Rogers in Person”
― Philip-Dimitri Galas