184 Quotes by Maggie Nelson

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it – whether it cripples the mind’s power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

The Oblivion Seekers, a collection one critic has described as “one of the strangest human documents that a woman has given to the world.

When I say “hope,” I don’t mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean thinking that it’s worth it to keep one’s eyes open.

There is simply no way that a year from now you’re going to feel the way you feel today”, a different therapist said to me last year at this time. But though I have learned to act as if I feel differently, the truth is that my feelings haven’t really changed.

I labor grimly on these sentences, wondering all the while if prose is but the gravestone marking the forsaking of wildness.

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one’s solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

I know we’re still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.