Life Quotes by Barbara Kingsolver

“Life proceeds, it enrages.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

He needs to go rub his soul against life.

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Some of life's greatest calls were answered not by the head but by the body.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

“People hang on for dear life to that one, she thought: the fool they are right now.”

— Barbara Kingsolver

I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence.

— Barbara Kingsolver

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

— Barbara Kingsolver

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

— Barbara Kingsolver

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

— Barbara Kingsolver

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

— Barbara Kingsolver

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Which makes you wonder, are they really speaking real words or do little kids just start out naturally understanding each other before…

— Barbara Kingsolver

A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you’re good, bad…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find:…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We felt tired to our bones but anointed by life in a durable, companionable way, for at least the present moment. We…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history. Even the child Ruth May touched history. Everyone is complicit.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I am telling you what I’m telling you. Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it…

— Barbara Kingsolver

What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“I’ve seen many a small life meet its doom at the end of a beak in our yard, not just beetles and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“a single-file army of ants biting a mammoth tree into uniform grains and hauling it down to the dark for their ravenous…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We would not wake up from this nightmare to find out it was someone's real life, and for once that someone wasn't…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“That night marks my life's dark center, the moment when growing up ended and the long downward slope toward death began. The…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“A lifetime of people, unconfirmed by their living presences, or photographs or descriptions in a notebook, can only skulk in the corners…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“The tunnel of winter had settled over our lives, ushered in by that great official Hoodwink, the end of daylight saving time.…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“People need wild places. Whether or not we think we do, we do. We need to be able to taste grace and…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“We're a nation with an eating disorder, and we know it. The multiple maladies caused by bad eating are taking a dire…

— Barbara Kingsolver

But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“First, picture the forest. I want you to be its conscience, the eyes in the trees. The trees are columns of slick,…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“How can we presume to uplift the life of the working man, if we don't respect his work?”

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

In a world as wrong as this one, all we can do is make things as right as we can.

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Barbara Kingsolver

“And I have no idea how to be kind to myself. Living, as a general enterprise, seems unkind beyond belief.”

— Barbara Kingsolver