People Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

creative people always suffer from depression because we're so super sensitive and special?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The only boring people I know are bored people.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My work is incredibly important to me personally. It brings me joy and it brings me life and it brings me meaning.…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I know this simple fact to be true, for I myself have abandoned people who did not want me to go, and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Watch for the people whose eyes light up when you talk about your dream. Those are the people you keep.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think a lot of people who feel as though they desperately want to be married oftentimes simply desperately want to have…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I've always been afraid of saying no to people because I don't want them to be disappointed and dislike me.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

What profound reward you must glean from studying the world so closely…Too many people turn away from small wonders, I find. There…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

To feel physically comfortable with someone else's body is not a decision you make. It has very little thing to do with…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

In order for marriage to endure it has to change along with us, and it does that very graciously. And in the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I completely respect the ways people are bound in the lives that they have, whether it's because of forces outside of their…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

[My friend and I] decided, we'll go to Corsicana, and we'll see what the people in Corsicana say. ... We just started…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

For most of Western civilization there was no real division between the realms of science, divinity, and artistic endeavor - they were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Marriage is an ongoing, centuries-long social experiment that is mostly controlled by the individuals in the relationships who insist on determining what…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

You have to get hurt. That's how you learn. The strongest people out there, the ones who laugh the hardest with a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

It has never been easy for me to understand why people work so hard to create something beautiful, but then refuse to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Clearing out all your misery gets you out of the way. You cease being an obstacle, not only to yourself but to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I think sometimes we look at other people's marriages and we think they must always be so happy together. I don't know…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

How much do you love me?' and "Who's in charge?" …these two questions of LOVE and CONTROL undo us ALL, trip us…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

But, ancient Greece and ancient Rome - people did not happen to believe that creativity came from human beings back then, OK?…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide their loved ones with material…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Creativity asks you to enter realms with uncertain outcomes. People want to create a safe life for themselves so they try to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I'm still aspiring to be a better and better person, but I think that disappointments have made me gentler with other people…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

When somebody has an enormous success in this culture, people start asking two questions, which are 'What are you doing now?' and…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

But I don't know how much more socializing I can do, Felipe. I only have the one dress. People will start to…

— Elizabeth Gilbert