103 Quotes by Anita Brookner

I am 46, and have been for some time past.

I think you always feel braver in another language.

I was brought up among the sort of self-important women who had a husband as one has an alibi.

When you make a break for freedom you don't necessarily find company on the way.

You can never betray the people who are dead.

One loses the capacity to grieve as a child grieves, or to rage as a child rages: hotly, despairingly, with tears of passion. One grows up, one becomes civilized, one learns one's manners, and consequently can no longer manage these two functions - sorrow and anger - adequately.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

I need noise and interruptions and irritation: irritation and discomfort are a great starter. The loneliness of doing it any other way would kill me.

Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.