Everything Is Illuminated Quotes

The only way to overcome sadness is to consume it.

To feel alone is to be alone.

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-children’s will be. But we learn to live with that love.

Love me, because love doesn’t exist, and I have tried everything that does.

I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.

One day you will do things for me that you hate. That is what it means to be family.

Many girls want to be carnal with me because I’m such a premium dancer.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us…on the inside, looking out.

I am not a bad person. I am a good person who has lived in a bad time.” Alex’s grandfather..Everything is Illuminated

Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.

The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know you are sad.

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.

I spent my life learning to feel less.