Robert Goolrick quotes

There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven't had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away. (Robert Goolrick)
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it. View quote
Robert Goolrick
It is the tenderness that breaks our hearts. The loveliness that leaves us stranded on the shore, watching the boats sail away. It is the sweetness that makes us want to reach out and touch the soft skin of another person. And it is the grace that comes to us, undeserving though we may be. View quote
Robert Goolrick
When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go. View quote
Robert Goolrick
There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us. View quote
Robert Goolrick
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know. View quote
Robert Goolrick
I think kissing is what separates us from the animals and makes us divine. View quote
Robert Goolrick
I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home. View quote
Robert Goolrick
If love drove people mad, what would lack of love do? View quote
Robert Goolrick
Nothing says hell has to be fire. View quote
Robert Goolrick
I know that it's easier to look at death than it is to look at pain, because while death is irrevocable, and the grief will lessen in time, pain is too often merely relentless and irreversible. (Robert Goolrick)

Robert Goolrick

Occupation: Novelist
Quotes count: 11

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