Quotes by Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby

Explore a curated collection of 34 quotes by Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The moment when mortality, ephemerality, uncertainty, suffering, or the possibility of change arrives can split a life i — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of. — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
When my friends began to have babies and I came to comprehend the heroic labor it takes to keep one alive, the constant — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist. — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollo — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Maybe the word forgive points in the wrong direction, since it's something you mostly give yourself, not anyone else: yo — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Vengeance and forgiveness are about reconciling the accounts, but accounting is an ugly description of the tangled ways — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Sometimes I get mail for people who lived in my home before I did, and sometimes my own body seems like a home through w — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Mostly we tell the story of our lives, or mostly we're taught to tell it, as a quest to avoid suffering, though if your — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last. — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Some secret of nurture withered a generation or two before I arrived, if it had ever existed before among the poor, marg — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you trav — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Always, just beyond all these things, was the silver sea, the lace border around all land like the silence around sounds — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
The coolness of Buddhism isn't indifference but the distance one gains on emotions, the quiet place from which to regard — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
When you are well, your own body is a sealed country into which you need not explore far, but when you are unwell, there — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and t — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the route — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby
Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast — Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby