43 Quotes by Sara Gran

No one knows how to feel anything anymore. No one knows anymore. Ain’t no one care. People have, like, experiences. Everything just another experience. They do things, but they don’t feel it. It just all goes right through them. Like they a ghost. Like we all ghosts.

Each was over fifty and poor, probably homeless, wearing clothes that hadn’t been washed this year. They were the same type of man you could see in any city in America, in a little park or square just off downtown, halfway to skid row. I think they started making them after the Civil War; fighters who’d lost their wars and lost their fight. Even when their side won, they lost.

To let go of the self is the highest calling of the self, something that few achieve. And something that every self, whether she knows it or not, aspires.

Mysteries never end,” Silette wrote. “And we solve them anyway, knowing we are both solving both everything and nothing. We solve them knowing the world will surely be as poorly or even worse off than before. But this is the piece of life we have been given authority over, nothing else; and while we may ask why over and over, no one yet has been given an answer.

There are no coincidences. Only doors you didn’t have the courage to walk through. only blind spots you weren’t brave enough to see. Only tones you refused to admit you could hear.

I was watching Iggy Pop videos on Youtube and trying to research miniature horse suicides.

Later, as life wore on, I would realize that most people think everyone hates them. The truth is worse; for most people, no one is thinking of them at all.

Because we’d all been handed heaven on a silver platter, and instead we’d kicked it away and asked for hell.

We all want to be someone else. And sometimes we succeed in convincing ourselves we can be. But it doesn’t last, and our true selves, broken and scarred, always win out in the end.