172 Quotes by Sheila Heti

Better to have your failure right in front of you than the fantasy in your head.

Living one way is not a criticism of every other way of living. Is that the threat of the woman without kids? Yet the woman without kids is not saying that no woman should have kids, or that you-woman with a stroller- have made the wrong choice. Her decision about her life is no statement about yours. One person’s life is not a political or general statement about how all lives should be. Other lives should be able to exist alongside our own without any threat or judgment at all.

I do feel it. And I’ve felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

I think a lot of people try to edit themselves out and I think that’s a big mistake, because the person being interviewed is responding to a person, and if you don’t know who that person is then you don’t really know what’s going on with the person being interviewed.

Somehow I had turned myself into the worst thing in the world: I was just another man who wanted to teach me something!

In their quest for a life without failure, suffering, or doubt, that is what they achieve: a life empty of all those things that make a human life meaningful.

So your values, happiness and the things the people around you need. Those are the things by which you should steer your life.

There is a kind of sadness in not wanting the things that give so many other people their life’s meaning.