All Shirley Hazzard Quotes
- One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when… Admit
- Going to Europe, someone had written, was about as final as going to heaven. A mystical passage to another life, from which no-one returned the… Abroad
- Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead. Dead
- The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts. Confusion
- I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal. Convinced
- In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and… Acknowledgement
- Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness. Beings
- Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity… Calamity
- The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about… All
- Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. America
- Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. Accurate
- It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of. Get Rid
- At first, there is something you expect of life. Later, there is what life expects of you. By the time you realize these are the… Expect
- When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them. Hurt
- I never had, or wished for, power over you. That isn't true, of course. I wanted the greatest power of all. but not advantage, or… Advantage
- Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life. Been