193 Quotes by Raymond Carver

I thought for a minute of the world outside my house, and then I didn’t have any more thoughts except the thought that I had to hurry up and sleep.

We opened our eyes and turned in bed to take a good look at each other. We both knew it then. We’d reached the end of something, and the thing was to find out where new to start.

I love you, Bro.

And the terrible thing, the terrible thing is, but the good thing too, the saving grace, is that if something happened to one of us – excuse me for saying this – but if something happened to one of us tomorrow, I think the other one, the other person, would grieve for a while, you know, but then the surviving party would go out and love again, have someone else soon enough. All this, all of this love we’re talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory.

Remember Haydn’s 104 symphonies. Not all of them were great. But there were 104 of them.

The past is unclear. It’s as if there is a film over those early years. I can’t even be sure that the things I remember happening really happened to me.

This is awful. I don’t know what’s going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.

Maybe once, maybe years ago, I was a different kind of human being. I’ve forgotten, I don’t know for sure.

He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he’d find it out.