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Trying Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- ...to live differently, to love differently, to think differently, or to try to. Is the danger of beauty so great that it is better to…
- In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this…
- Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's…
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality. Since then, I have been trying to find out…
- Only a fool tries to reconstruct a bunch of grapes from a bottle of wine.
- I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married…
- I have set off and found that there is no end to even the simplest journey of the mind. I begin, and straight away a…
- I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they…
- Breathe in, breath out. Oxygen is carcinogenic and likely puts a limit on our life span. It would be unwise though, to try to extend…
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
- And you? Now that I have discovered you? Beautiful, dangerous, unleashed. Still I try to hold you, knowing that your body is faced with knives.
- I know from my own experience that suicide is not what it seems. Too easy to try to piece together the fragmented life. The spirit…
More Trying Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold