Moshfegh Eileen Quotes

#1. You are never asked to do more than you are able without being given the strength and ability to do it. #Quote by Eileen Caddy

#2. Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#3. Most important, whether or not we openly struggle with unwanted behavior or addiction, the Twelve Steps provide a framework for examining ourselves, pondering the possibility that our behavior has been or is
detrimental to others. It can be a very productive undertaking for self-assessment and examination. #Quote by Eileen Schmitz

#4. It's remarkable what people become blind to when they're in such darkness. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#5. Evolution is not an even process. There are surges, and there are micromoments. Certainly a career as an artist is that way. #Quote by Eileen Myles

#6. To be a poet, it's a challenge to do it in poverty, to do it in wealth. To do it in the academy, to do it in a relationship where you're happy. Everything changes the game. To do it in the awkward state of love, despair, dying. You just have to work it. #Quote by Eileen Myles

#7. He and I agreed that people looked stupid when they were "having a good time. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#8. He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health. #Quote by Eileen Cook

#9. Don't force anything. Let life be a deep let go. #Quote by Eileen Caddy

#10. You can always tell something when a woman is overdressed---either she's an outsider, or she's insane. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#11. The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have. #Quote by Eileen Collins

#12. Are you still doing that crap?" I ask.
"You can't even do it properly," Eileen says.
"Just a matter of practice," Simone says.
"Wow! Practicing how to poison yourself and make your breath reek like the fart of a seagull!" Eileen cries. #Quote by Randa Abdel-Fattah

#13. Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of these women, women of my generation are able to look back and say, 'Hey, they did it. They even flew military airplanes, we can do it, too.' #Quote by Eileen Collins

#14. It's easy to tell the dirtiest minds - look for the cleanest fingernails. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#15. Rahab pondered the thought. "I don't suppose a pomegranate or a fig as an offering would have the same effect on our hearts. To see an innocent life taken in our place is much more humbling than offering Adonai fruit. #Quote by Jill Eileen Smith

#16. I have waited all my life for permission. I feel it growing in my breast. A war is storming and it is behind me and I am moving my forces into light. #Quote by Eileen Myles (author)

#17. A dog's good for filling a grief-dug hole."
"In the Shape of Shep #Quote by Eileen Granfors

#18. Surely a woman who picked a spot so close to the ocean didn't automatically hide from the rain. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#19. How will I know who I can become if I don't give myself the chance to try new things, to push myself beyond my normal boundaries? Who might I be if I am away from the things that I currently use to define myself? #Quote by Eileen Cook

#20. I miss you," she said, her voice cracking a little. Maybe she thought those words would break through to my heart. I'd been taking Nembutals all day. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#21. If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#22. Set your sights high, the higher the better.
Expect the most wonderful things to happen,
not in the future but right now.
Realize that nothing is too good.
Allow absolutely nothing to hamper you
or hold you up in any way. #Quote by Eileen Caddy

#23. I always thought it was pathetic that Reva had chosen to stay in the area after graduation, but passing through it in the cab, in my frenzied state of despair, I understood: there was stability in living in the past. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#24. Let there be more joy and laughter in your living. #Quote by Eileen Caddy

#25. Exposing their own humility and vulnerability is one of the most difficult challenges for white antiracist, even after achieving an autonomous white racial identity. #Quote by Eileen O'Brien

#26. But that (My brother's first science fair) project changed my life. #Quote by Eileen Pollack

#27. He wanted slow. He wanted lingering and teasing, and she was not in a patient mood. As with so much in a relationship, compromise was key. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#28. It didn't matter whether your farm was large or small.

It didn't matter if you had a farm at all.

Cause everyone was affected when water didn't run.

The snow and frost continued without the warming sun.

One day in June it got real hot and leaves began to show.

But after that it snowed again and wind and cold did blow.

The cows and horses had no grass, no grain to feed the chicks.

No hay to put aside that time, just dry and shriveled sticks.

The sheep were cold and hungry and many starved to death,

Still waiting for the warming sun to save their labored breath.

The kids were disappointed, no swimming, such a shame.

It was in 1816 that summer never came. #Quote by Eileen Marguet

#29. They were Chinese vampires. They were discovered during renovation work at the Bok Kai Temple in Old Sacramento. One of the priests there told his brother about them. The brother's whatever the Chinese version of mobbed up is. Alex here thinks he's using them to distract the Nortenos and the Black Dragons long enough to take over the marijuana trade in Sacramento using the stuff they're making in a bunch of grow houses in Elk Grove."
Ted stared at me. "And will the Chinese vampires be joined by legions of Korean werewolves who have been cooking meth in trailer parks in Truckee?
"No. The werewolves are refusing to get involved. Trust me, I've tried to talk them into helping. They'll have nothing to do with it. #Quote by Eileen Rendahl

#30. …suddenly I wanted to go back and be in all the places I'd ever been, every street I'd walked down, every room I'd sat down in. I wanted to see it all again. I tried to remember my life, flipping through Polaroids in my mind. . . . But I knew that even if I could go back, if such a thing were possible with exactitude, in life or in dreams, there was really no point. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#31. His eyes made her think of water at night - full of mysteries and hints, revealing little. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#32. In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special. #Quote by Eileen Myles

#33. I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out. #Quote by Charles Sheffield

#34. Uh - do you want to do it outside?
Frequently. Oh, you meant the wedding. That, too. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#35. The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for. #Quote by Eileen Wilks

#36. Find a balance between one's responsibility as a white person to confront acts of racism and one's subconscious sense of power and privilege over people of color when reacting to the [racist] event. #Quote by Eileen O'Brien

#37. That's fair," I said, though my feelings were already hurt. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#38. And that was exactly what I wanted - my emotions passing like headlights that shine softly through a window, sweep past me, illuminate something vaguely familiar, then fade and leave me in the dark again. #Quote by Otessa Moshfegh

#39. Oh, sleep. Nothing else could ever bring me such pleasure, such freedom, the power to feel and move and think and imagine, safe from the miseries of my waking consciousness. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#40. We're guys. I punched him, he hit me back, and then everything was fine. We went out for ice cream after. #Quote by Eileen Cook

#41. Fictional boyfriends were way more satisfying, in my experience. They almost always said the right thing, and when you got bored with them, you just put them back on the shelf. #Quote by Eileen Cook

#42. When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem. #Quote by Eileen Myles

#43. I rarely interacted much with anyone back then who wasn't retarded. When I did, it struck me how pompous and impatient they were, always measuring their words, twisting things around. Everybody was so obsessed with being understood. It made me sick. #Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh

#44. (Interviews Ntozake Shange) "What do you think an artist's job is?"
"To keep our sensibilities alive, so we aren't numb by our struggles to survive. That's what I think our job is right now. #Quote by Eileen Myles

#45. The spring of the New Age is here, bursting forth in perfect harmony, beauty and abundance; and nothing can stop it from coming about. #Quote by Eileen Caddy