"The world does not have tidy endings. The……" — Dennis Lehane
"The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them."
—
Dennis Lehane
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
69 Quotes by Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane has 69 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside…
-
He wondered if this was what clinical depression felt like, a total numbness, a weary lack of hope.
-
Vanity is a weakness. I know this. It's a shallow dependence on the exterior self, on how one looks instead…
-
Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That's how you focus the world. It's the only reason you…
-
Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls…
-
Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?'
-
Choice, I've always believed, is all that separates us from animals.
-
The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.
-
Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad…
-
Don't get me wrong, I love literary fiction. It's faux literary fiction I can't stand.
-
I believe so deeply in the primacy of language, in lifting your prose to the highest level you're capable of…
-
I love to write, so it rarely seems like work - even when it gets arduous.
See all 69 quotes by Dennis Lehane »
More Connections Quotes
This quote is filed under Connections Quotes,
one of 1,466 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
— Saint Augustine
-
People who don't like my work say that the connections seem too arbitrary. But that's how life is.
— Paul Auster
-
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
— Gaston Bachelard
-
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that.…
— Matthew Barney
-
He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard…
— Samuel Adams
-
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
— Martha Beck
-
Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become…
— John Berger
-
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
— Henry Ward Beecher
-
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
— Rachel Bilson
-
In a building with apartments, of course, you want to make connections. Life is easier that way. There's salt if…
— Juliette Binoche
-
Being around people with whom you feel a connection, on many levels, not just a professional one, is very relaxing.…
— Jacqueline Bisset
See all 1,466 Connections Quotes »