Frailty Quote by Sarah Manguso

I like people who possess either deep mastery or deep empathy, but not as much as I like those who possess both.

— Sarah Manguso

The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over me and…

— Sarah Manguso

“The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst…

— Sarah Manguso

“There will come a time when people decide you've had enough of your grief, and they'll try to take it away from you.”

— Sarah Manguso

“It’s impossible to fail if one doesn’t know how the end should look. And it’s impossible to succeed. But it’s possible to enjoy.”

— Sarah Manguso

“I tend to forget that my measurement of time is designed to distract me from what's really happening.”

— Sarah Manguso

My existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I…

— Sarah Manguso

“Whatever you're feeling, billions already have. Feel for them.”

— Sarah Manguso

“ My friend Isabel says, When you’re writing even a short novel, with at least a couple of subplots, and God only knows how…

— Sarah Manguso

The only thing I've consistently been interested in in the last twenty-five years is writing very short texts. That continues to interest me as…

— Sarah Manguso

“Like a vase, a heart breaks once. After that, it just yields to its flaws.”

— Sarah Manguso

“Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a…

— Sarah Manguso