Alice Koller Quotes

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What is it to mourn? It is to be hurled into pain so vast that you cannot imagine it in advance of being incorporated by it, a pain that usurps all other thinking, all other feeling, a pain that occupies you as you occupy the house you live in.

Alice Koller

When something intolerable is in my life, I head for the water. It leavens me in some way. Some middlemost part of me is soothed and silenced by it.

Alice Koller

I can recognize what's true about myself when I see it. It's whatever I find myself refusing to admit, whatever I say no to very fast.

Alice Koller

Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.

Alice Koller

Human beings can ask questions. 'Can': are able to. Not 'may': are permitted to. And being able to ask but not asking, people abdicate, tissue by tissue, their chief difference from stones.

Alice Koller

I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.

Alice Koller