87 Quotes by Sarah Manguso

One must be able to empathize with a suicide yet not become one.

Sometimes a single sentence can be enough to fill the imagination completely. And sometimes a book’s title is enough.

Outsiders pretend to be insiders, and it makes them unlikable. Insiders pretend to be outsiders, and we love to play along.

There will come a time when people decide you’ve had enough of your grief, and they’ll try to take it away from you.

If you think something’s happened quickly, you’re looking at only a part of it.

Whatever you’re feeling, billions already have. Feel for them.

Depression is hard to describe not just because it is complex and abstract but also because it occupies the part of us capable of describing things.

The trouble with comparing yourself to others is that there are too many others. Using all others as your control group, all your worst fears and all your fondest hopes are at once true. You are good; you are bad; you are abnormal; you are just like everyone else.

Being forgotten like that, entering that great and ongoing blank, seems more like death than death.