Raymond Carver: Going

Raymond Carver was American short story author and poet. Explore interesting quotes on going.

Raymond Carver: 102 quotes9 likes

“Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.”

“This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.”

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come, while everything else—the cold and where he'd go in it—was outside, for a while anyway.”

Source: Distance and other stories

“Booze takes a lot of time and effort if you're going to do a good job with it.”

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“A man can go along obeying all the rules and then it don’t matter a damn anymore.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

Source: Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories

“I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.”

Raymond Carver book Elephant

Source: Elephant and Other Stories

“Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.”

“The light was draining out of the room, going back through the window where it had come from.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Source: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

“Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical school. He said he still looked back on those years in the seminary as the most important years of his life.”

Raymond Carver book What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981)