If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
Margaret MitchellRead
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects the idea that it is better to remember things as they were at their best rather than trying to mend what was broken.
Margaret Mitchell expresses a viewpoint that acceptance of brokenness is preferable to the futile effort of trying to fix what cannot truly be restored. Instead of piecing together the past to create a façade of wholeness, she suggests that one should cherish the best memories while acknowledging the reality of what has been lost or damaged.
Themes
BrokenAcceptanceMemoryWholenessPast
In practice
Example use cases
During a discussion about overcoming loss, this quote could be used to highlight the importance of acceptance.
More from Margaret Mitchell
All quotes →You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
Margaret MitchellRead
It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.
Margaret MitchellRead
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
Margaret MitchellRead
men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them
Margaret MitchellRead
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
Margaret MitchellRead
Similar quotes
I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard PryorRead
Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.
George OrwellRead
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.
Henry A. KissingerRead
This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.
Jane JacobsRead
And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
Albert CamusRead
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
SocratesRead