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Top 20 Binnie Kirshenbaum Quotes (2025 Update)

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.”

1. “A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don’t often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we’re likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.”

2. “Everyone does deserve a second chance, although we don’t often get one, and even when we do get a second chance, we’re likely to make the same mistake again. The things we learn later rather than sooner tend to result from harsh lessons, but mostly we learn nothing at all.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “The end of all things – a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair – is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.”

3. “The end of all things – a book, a life, a summer, a marriage, the last bite of cake, the last of innocence lost, a love affair – is always sad, at least a little bit sad, because it is the end, the end of that.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?”

4. “Except, how do we go on when what was best is behind us? When the longing is not for someone you have not yet met, but for someone you knew and lost?”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.”

5. “The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Lots of things should be, but aren’t.”

6. “Lots of things should be, but aren’t.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn’t already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.”

7. “Henry told me he is often the life of the party, as if he didn’t already know that to be the life of the party is the most sad and pathetic of all things to be.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Bunny does not want to kill herself. She does not want to die. It’s that she no longer wants to live. To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.”

8. “Bunny does not want to kill herself. She does not want to die. It’s that she no longer wants to live. To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.”

9. “But there are no happy endings unless we cut the story short, and as far as I know, there are no rules of etiquette to a miracle, either.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don’t always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don’t always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.”

10. “But surely he had told that story before. All of us, we tell our stories over and over again. Not in the same way and we don’t always recognize them for what they are, the same way we don’t always recognize that all creation myths boil down to God and man and a thunderstorm.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.”

11. “I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.”

12. “To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Maybe it has something to do with the pull of the moon because, despite the statistical improbability of any two people meeting up, it is inevitable that the tremulous are drawn to the languished, the sick to the broken, the forsaken to the sad, every pot has its cover, and the funny to the funny ones, too.”

13. “Maybe it has something to do with the pull of the moon because, despite the statistical improbability of any two people meeting up, it is inevitable that the tremulous are drawn to the languished, the sick to the broken, the forsaken to the sad, every pot has its cover, and the funny to the funny ones, too.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.”

14. “Sometimes late and never amount to the same thing. Sometimes, it has to be now or never.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can’t find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can’t imagine there’s a perchance left to be had.”

15. “That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can’t find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can’t imagine there’s a perchance left to be had.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “I probably said something about being happy for him, because I was happy for him, although to be happy for someone else doesn’t mean that you are happy for yourself.”

16. “I probably said something about being happy for him, because I was happy for him, although to be happy for someone else doesn’t mean that you are happy for yourself.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “Fun not shared is not fun. You can derive great pleasure alone, enjoy yourself enormously, experience bliss, but fun requires someone else, like a friend or a dog.”

17. “Fun not shared is not fun. You can derive great pleasure alone, enjoy yourself enormously, experience bliss, but fun requires someone else, like a friend or a dog.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would’ve taken the shape of a daisy.”

18. “A kind of happy that, if manifested into tangibility, would’ve taken the shape of a daisy.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “People who are clinically depressed have their own disturbances with food. For some, it’s as if hand to mouth were an involuntary reflex, as if food could fill the abyss. Which it can’t, and they grow fat, which does nothing good for their state of mind. The others are rarely hungry or else they are never hungry. They emaciate, become insubstantial, a manifestation of the wish to disappear. Bunny is one of the thin ones.”

19. “People who are clinically depressed have their own disturbances with food. For some, it’s as if hand to mouth were an involuntary reflex, as if food could fill the abyss. Which it can’t, and they grow fat, which does nothing good for their state of mind. The others are rarely hungry or else they are never hungry. They emaciate, become insubstantial, a manifestation of the wish to disappear. Bunny is one of the thin ones.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “People who are not easy to like, they have feelings just like nice people do.”

20. “People who are not easy to like, they have feelings just like nice people do.”

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Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “And worse than the hurt of not being someone special is the shame of it, the shame of how much I want that, to be someone special.”

21. “And worse than the hurt of not being someone special is the shame of it, the shame of how much I want that, to be someone special.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “A friend from work should be a compartmentalized and exclusive friendship; that is, my friend from work, as opposed to our friend from my work. Everyone should be free to go to lunch or dinner with a good friend from work without your significant other sitting there at the table letting go with bull-snort exhales of boredom laced with rising irritation while you and your friend are having what amounts to a private conversation about office intrigue.”

22. “A friend from work should be a compartmentalized and exclusive friendship; that is, my friend from work, as opposed to our friend from my work. Everyone should be free to go to lunch or dinner with a good friend from work without your significant other sitting there at the table letting go with bull-snort exhales of boredom laced with rising irritation while you and your friend are having what amounts to a private conversation about office intrigue.”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

Binnie Kirshenbaum Quote: “When our surroundings are overwhelmingly depressing, how can we be anything but depressed?”

23. “When our surroundings are overwhelmingly depressing, how can we be anything but depressed?”

— Binnie Kirshenbaum

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