Super sad true love story Quotes

Enjoy the best quotes on Super sad true love story , Explore, save & share top quotes on Super sad true love story .

In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?

Gary Shteyngart
Save QuoteView Quote

Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we know that we're only given eighty summers or so per lifetime, and each one has to be better then the last, has to encompass a trip to that arts center up at Bard, a seemingly mellow game of badminton over at some yahoo's Vermont cottage, and a cool, wet, slightly dangerous kayak trip down an unforgiving river. Otherwise, how would you know that you have lived your summertime best? What is you missed out on some morsel of shaded nirvana?

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

Forget the fountain of youth, pal of mine. You can live to be a thousand, and it won't matter. Mediocrities like you deserve immortality.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

And the looks on the faces of my countrymenpassive heads bent arms at their trousers everyone guilty of not being their best of not earning their daily bread the kind of docility I had never expected from Americans even after so many years of our decline. Here was the tiredness of failure imposed on a country that believed only in its opposite. Here was the end product of our deep moral exhaustion.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

How can we read when people need our help? It's a luxury. A stupid luxury.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote

Reading is difficult. People just aren't meant to read anymore. We're in a post-literate age. You know, a visual age. How many years after the fall of Rome did it take for a Dante to appear? Many, many years.

Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story
Save QuoteView Quote