193 Quotes by Raymond Carver

Late FragmentAnd did you get whatyou wanted from this life, even so?I did.And what did you want?To call myself beloved, to feel myselfbeloved on the earth.

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

We knew our days were numbered. We had fouled up our lives and we were getting ready for a shake-up.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

I've crossed some kind of invisible line. I feel as if I've come to a place I never thought I'd have to come to. And I don't know how I got here. It's a strange place. It's a place where a little harmless dreaming and then some sleepy, early-morning talk has led me into considerations of death and annihilation.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

there isn't enough of anythingas long as we live. But at intervalsa sweetness appears and, given a chanceprevails.

Happiness. It comes onunexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,any early morning talk about it.