Robert Goolrick quotes are thought-provoking, memorable and inspiring. From views on society and politics to thoughts on love and life, Robert Goolrick has a lot to say. In this list we present the 14 best Robert Goolrick quotes, in no particular order. Let yourself get inspired!
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Robert Goolrick quotes
If you don’t receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
I know that it’s easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
Learning became her. She loved the smell of the book from the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an infinite but knowable place. Every fact she learned seemed to open another question, and for every question there was another book.
— Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
Their love for me was both a myth and a torture and so I wrecked everything. I hurt them, and I left them hurting.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE?RG: The most interesting question came from a young man in his 30s who asked me to discuss the relationship between love and aging. We think when we’re young that, as we get older, our passions and enthusiasms will fade, will lose their hold on us, and we will enter into some more gentle phase. I don’t find it to be true. Our passions, in fact, intensify, like a sauce that has been reduced to its essence by long slow simmering over a low flame.
— Robert Goolrick
I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.And now I will have to be that person forever.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
I wasn’t safe. I wasn’t permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn’t there. There was nobody home.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
The thing is, all memory is fiction. You have to remember that. Of course, there are things that actually, certifiably happened, things you can pinpoint the day, the hour, the minute. When you think about it, though, those things, mostly seem to happen to other people. This story actually happened, and it happened pretty much the way I am going to tell it to you. It’s a true story as much as six decades or telling and remembering can allow it to be true. Time changes things, and you don’t always get everything right. You remember a little thing clear as a bell, the weather, say, or the splash of light on the river’s ripples as the sun was going down into the black pines. things not even connected to anything in particular, while other things, big things even, come completely disconnected and no longer have any shape or sound. The little things seem more real than the big things.
— Robert Goolrick, Heading Out to Wonderful
Nothing says hell has to be fire.
— Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
For every question, there is a book.
— Robert Goolrick
Such things happen.
— Robert Goolrick
Sometimes she sat and let her mind go blank and her eyes go out of focus, so that she watched the slow, jerky movements of the motes that floated across her pupils. They amazed her as a child. Now she saw them as a reflection of how she moved, floating listlessly through the world, occasionally bumping into another body without acknowledgment, and then floating on, free and alone.
— Robert Goolrick, A Reliable Wife
I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine.
— Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life
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