186 Quotes by Sharon Olds
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
God-bye, for the rest of this life and for the long nothing.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
And they do not know language, they are waiting for him
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
refreshing to live with, beings withoutthe knowledge of death, creatures of ignorant suffering.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
I think he had come, in private, to feel he was dying, with me
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
And so he went into another world—thisworld, where I do not see or hear him
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
I feel that ignorant love gave me a life. But from within my illusion of himI could not see him, or know him.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
only a sojourner, in our home, where the heart,after its long, good years,was sparrow-netted to make its owncage
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
and farther into cold fog I let him go, I lay and stretched on love'sfucking stretcher, and let him wander on his own the haunt salt mazes.
- Tags
- Share
- Author Sharon Olds
-
Quote
I thought wherever we were, we were in lasting love—even in our separateness andloneliness, in love
- Tags
- Share