513 Quotes by Janet Fitch

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn’t see possibilities. Then came despair.

Don’t turn over the rocks if you don’t want to see the pale creatures who live under them.

Who can judge another man’s suffering?

A person didn’t need to be beautiful, they just needed to be loved. But I couldn’t help wanting it. If that was the way I could be loved, to be beautiful, I’d take it.

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn’t go out, so I didn’t get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.

Nobody had forgotten anything here. In Berlin, you had to wrestle with the past, you had to build on the ruins, inside them. It wasn’t like America where we scraped the earth clean, thinking we could start again every time.

Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.