10 Barbara Kingsolver Quotes on Life

Barbara Kingsolver quotes on life

5. Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.

8. Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.

9. Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

11. If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread.

13. It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

14. It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.

16. Life always provides me with better jokes than any I could invent.

25. The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope.

29. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

30. Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.