276 Quotes by Jim Harrison

He had been foolish enough to believe that as he recovered over the past few months the world might be recovering with him.

We survive by learning from pain.

I like grit, I like love and death, I’m tired of irony.

No one gets over anything.

I suppose poor Adams never recovered from the suicide of his wife, though it is arguable whether anyone ever truly recovers from anything.

I lean against the rail and think there much be such a thing as beautiful anxiety.

The heart wants life so much and the brain is shocked at the approach of death. The soldier always thinks it will be someone else, the man before or behind him, or hopefully no one he knows will ever die.

There is a spine of goofiness in America that has never been deterred by literacy.

Much earlier in this century an Austrian journalist, Karl Kraus, pointed out that if you actually perceived the true reality behind the news you would run, screaming, into the streets. I have run screaming into the streets dozens of times but have always managed to return home in time for dinner-and usually an hour early so that I can help in the preparation.