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Anthony Doerr Quotes

Total quotes: 12
“All your life you wait, and then it finally comes, and are you ready?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Waiting, Patience, Ready, Time
“Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Time, chances, Opportunity
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.”
— Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall
Tagged: Identity, Happiness, Self Discovery, Be yourself, Mental Health
“Things hardly ever work on the first try. We’ll make another, a better one.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Second Chance, First attempt, Opportunity, Luck
“How do you ever know for certain that you are doing the right thing?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Awareness, Right
“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Being Alive, Living, Living Fully, Life And Death, Life and Existence, Death, Life, Experience
“Sometimes the eye of a hurricane is the safest place to be.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Problems, Challenges, Safe Place, Troubles
“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Tagged: Encouragement, Life, motivation, Advice
“But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don’t you do the same?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Tagged: Bravery, Courage, Depression, Life, Growing Pains, Survival, Tired, Routine
“Some people are weak in some ways, sir. Others in other ways.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Weakness, People, Imperfections, Imperfect Humans, humans, humans are the same, human weakness
“Is it right to do something only because everyone else is doing it?”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
Tagged: Life Questioning, Reality, Bandwagon, cliche
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
Tagged: Existence, Cells, Matter, Life, Birth
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