Life Quotes by Lorrie Moore

I don't have a love life. I have a like life.

— Lorrie Moore

“Life was unendurable, and yet everywhere it was endured.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Nothing is a joke with me. It just all comes out like one.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Life is sad. Here is someone.”

— Lorrie Moore

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore

An author's life is different, complex, and ongoing, while a character's remains frozen in one little story.

— Lorrie Moore

Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

— Lorrie Moore

“I said nothing. If she wasn't careful, everyone would rush out of her life, life out of a burning building.”

— Lorrie Moore

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

— Lorrie Moore

I always had the sense with her that she didn't suffer fools gladly but that life was taking great pains to show…

— Lorrie Moore

“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...”

— Lorrie Moore

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

— Lorrie Moore

“You only live at once." Which seemed to her all the more reason to be careful, to take it easy, to have…

— Lorrie Moore

I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a…

— Lorrie Moore

But family life sometimes had a vortex, like weather. It could be like a tornado in a quiet zigzag: get close enough…

— Lorrie Moore

“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the…

— Lorrie Moore

“There were moments bristling with deadness, when she looked out at her life and went, " What? " Or worse, feeling interrupted…

— Lorrie Moore

Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you…

— Lorrie Moore

“The proper relationship of a writer to his or her own life is similar to a cook with a cupboard. What the…

— Lorrie Moore

A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind…

— Lorrie Moore

the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is…

— Lorrie Moore

But I believed in starting over. There was finally, I knew, only rupture and hurt and falling short between all persons, but,…

— Lorrie Moore

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…

— Lorrie Moore

Writing is both the excursion into and the excursion out of one's life. That is the queasy paradox of the artistic life.…

— Lorrie Moore

“Denial, when one was accused, was a life force, and would trump any desire to confess. Perhaps this was the animal strength…

— Lorrie Moore

“At that time in my life I was never late. Only a year later would I suddenly have difficulty hanging on to…

— Lorrie Moore

“From here on in, many things can happen. But the main one will be this: you decide not to go to law…

— Lorrie Moore

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient,…

— Lorrie Moore

“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing…

— Lorrie Moore

“In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you…

— Lorrie Moore

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

— Lorrie Moore

“Perhaps everyone had their own way of preparing to die. Life got you ready.”

— Lorrie Moore

“I don't have a love life. I have a like life.' Mamie smiled. She thought how nice that might be, to be…

— Lorrie Moore

“The catalog showed a man sleeping peacefully while his model-wife read a book in soft but focused light. In real life, however,…

— Lorrie Moore

I've had nonstop financial problems my whole adult life. It's always been a constant balance, year to year: 'Where's the time? Where's…

— Lorrie Moore

“it seemed one could just say are you serious? for the rest of existence and it would never be unjustified and would…

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“Mave believed that not being able to see your life clearly, to scrutinize it intelligently, meant that probably you were at the…

— Lorrie Moore

Every arrangement in life carried with it the sadness, the sentimental shadow, of its not being something else, but only itself.

— Lorrie Moore

“She would try to live life one day at a time, like an alcoholic--drink, don't drink, drink. Perhaps she should take drugs.”

— Lorrie Moore

“Unless you have a life of great importance," she said, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left…

— Lorrie Moore