Brazil Quotes

“We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up, out of the dreadfulness of merely living.”
― John Updike, Brazil

“We shed skins in life, to keep living.”
― John Updike, Brazil: A Novel

“A yawning repetitiveness as of a man who knows few words but will not stop talking.”
― John Updike, Brazil

“Why is the world so elaborate, if it has no purpose? Think of the care that goes into the least little insect and weed around us. You say you love me; then you must love life. Life is a gift, for which we must give something back.”
― John Updike, Brazil