176 Quotes by Katherine Anne Porter

The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything ...

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ...

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to that entire self-abandonment and helplessness?

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.

we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

Untrained minds have always been a nuisance to the military police of orthodoxy. God-intoxicated mystics and untidy saints with only a white blaze of divine love where their minds should have been, are perpetually creating almost as much disorder within the law as outside it.

I will never again attempt to tell any young person what to do - the really gifted don't need advice and the others can't take it.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.