“There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.”

—  Kevin Brockmeier , book The View from the Seventh Layer

Source: The View from the Seventh Layer

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your …" by Kevin Brockmeier?
Kevin Brockmeier photo
Kevin Brockmeier 2
writer 1972

Related quotes

Art Blakey photo

“On a live performance: "If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing."”

Art Blakey (1919–1990) American jazz drummer and bandleader

Source At the Jazz Corner of the World, Blue Note, 1959.

Carol Ann Duffy photo

“When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.”

Carol Ann Duffy (1955) British writer and professor of contemporary poetry

Interviewed in The Guardian, December 4, 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2005/dec/04/poetry.features

Jodi Picoult photo

“When she smiles, it feels like the first warm day of March-- after an eternity of snow, when you suddenly remember how summer feels on the backs of your bare calves & in the part of your hair.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

George Friedman photo

“Your 15 minutes are here, Friedman… I'm just saying, all your life you know useless and obscure things. And suddenly… It is a fairly strange experience.”

George Friedman (1949) American businessman and political scientist

Interview with Matt Bai (2003)

Bob Dylan photo

“They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up

“Love finds you when you start feeling incomplete in life. Love finds the good in you despite having millions of flaws in you. Love holds your hand and removes the emptiness of your life and you start loving yourself.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan
Nick Hornby photo

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

Hamis Kiggundu photo

“Its okay to tell a lie but believing in your own lies makes you the first victim, you become your own enemy which limits ability to think progressively towards success in life.”

Hamis Kiggundu (1984) Ugandan business magnate, Internet entrepreneur, philanthropist, and author

Its okay to tell a lie but believing in your own lies makes you the first victim, you become your own enemy which limits ability to think progressively towards success in life.
Quoted from his first book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Success_and_Failure_Based_on_Reason_and_Reality, "Success and Failure Based on Reason and Reality" https://www.amazon.co.uk/SUCCESS-FAILURE-BASED-REASON-REALITY/dp/9970983903/ on Amazon, P.124 (July 2018)

Karel Čapek photo

“Helena, do you ever have times when your heart's suddenly struck with the feeling, "Now, now something must happen —"”

Karel Čapek R.U.R.

R.U.R. (1920)

T. B. Joshua photo

“Every day you must stay true to your purpose, despite snow or rain. When your purpose is clear, your life will have meaning.”

T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader

Related topics