Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.
Anne LamottRead
Life is really pretty tricky, and there's a lot of loss, and the longer you stay alive, the more people you lose whom you actually couldn't live without.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life involves challenges and the inevitability of loss, making it complex and challenging.
This quote by Anne Lamott reflects on the difficulties of life, emphasizing that as we navigate through it, we encounter numerous hardships and losses. The deeper truth conveyed is that the longer we live, the more we are faced with the sadness of losing those we hold dear, highlighting the emotional complexity and fragility of human connections.
Themes
LossLifeEmotionsRelationshipsStruggles
In practice
Example use cases
During a memorial service, one can share this quote to express the bittersweet nature of loss.
More from Anne Lamott
All quotes βOr you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.
Anne LamottRead
Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.
Anne LamottRead
It is hard to remember that you are a cherished spiritual being when you're burping up apple fritters and Cheetos.
Anne LamottRead
Gorgeous, amazing things come into our lives when we are paying attention: mangoes, grandnieces, Bach, ponds. This happens more often when we have as little expectation as possible. If you say, "Well, that's pretty much what I thought I'd see," you are in trouble. At that point you have to ask yourself why you are even here. [...] Astonishing material and revelation appear in our lives all the time. Let it be. Unto us, so much is given. We just have to be open for business.
Anne LamottRead
...because when people have seen you at their worst, you don't have to put on the mask as much.
Anne LamottRead
Similar quotes
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
Jimmy CarterRead
So since I'm still here livin', I guess I will live on. I could've died for love-- But for livin' I was born.
Langston HughesRead
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
John Henry NewmanRead
Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.
Edward AbbeyRead
Life is a magic vase filled to the brim, so made that you cannot dip from it nor draw from it; but it overflows into the hand that drops treasures into it. Drop in malice and it overflows hate; drop in charity and it overflows love.
John RuskinRead
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
Jack LondonRead