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Top 15 Daphne Merkin Quotes (2025 Update)

Daphne Merkin Quote: “There’s something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.”

1. “There’s something stubborn about families, unhappy ones in particular: they outlive themselves, and then they live on.”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “I imagine a belief in God must come with a dazzling sense of purpose.”

2. “I imagine a belief in God must come with a dazzling sense of purpose.”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.”

3. “My mother is the source of my unease in the world and thus the only person who can make me feel at home in the world.”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.”

4. “No bill of sexual rights can hold its own against the lawless, untamable landscape of the erotic imagination.”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.”

5. “Then again, as those who suffer from it know, intractable depression creates a planet all its own, largely impermeable to influence from others except as shadow presences, urging you to come out and rejoin the world, take in a movie, go out for a bite, cheer up.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can’t remember that I’ve ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.”

6. “You see, down here, where life hangs heavy like a suffocating cloak, I can’t remember that I’ve ever felt any other way. I need to be reminded that there are reasons in the world to hold on, even if I have forgotten them; I tell myself if I can just hold on I will remember them, these reasons, they will come back to me.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.”

7. “Sometimes it seems to me that the private life no longer suffices for many of us, that if we are not observed by others doing glamorous things, we might as well not exist.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?”

8. “What would it be like as an adult to open my eyes with a feeling of even mild anticipation?”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life’s failings, as well as your own.”

9. “It was one thing to be depressed in your twenties or thirties, when the aspect of youth gave it an undeniable poignancy, a certain tattered charm; it was another thing entirely to be depressed in middle age, when you were supposed to have come to terms with life’s failings, as well as your own.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people’s needs strike us as capricious indulgences.”

10. “Naturally, our own irrational demands strike us as having the force of needs, while other people’s needs strike us as capricious indulgences.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination – the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

11. “It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination – the ingenious way alcohol seemed to lubricate everything from onerous chitchat to self-conscious sexual advances.”

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Daphne Merkin Quote: “Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”

12. “Despair is always described as dull, when the truth is that despair has a light all its own, a lunar glow, the color of mottled silver.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “Should you chance to read it a second or third time, Wuthering Heights comes at you afresh, in part because the novel seems to vanish into its own delirious origins once you’ve finished it, leaving no footprints, and in part because it is a literary force of nature such as you’ve never encountered before.”

13. “Should you chance to read it a second or third time, Wuthering Heights comes at you afresh, in part because the novel seems to vanish into its own delirious origins once you’ve finished it, leaving no footprints, and in part because it is a literary force of nature such as you’ve never encountered before.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I’m not aware of being overweight.”

14. “Much as I try to disguise myself, there is never a time when I’m not aware of being overweight.”

— Daphne Merkin

Daphne Merkin Quote: “I also recognize, however, that you can talk yourself blue in the face in a therapist’s office about crucial failures of love or nurturance with little effect on the inner blackness you carry around with you.”

15. “I also recognize, however, that you can talk yourself blue in the face in a therapist’s office about crucial failures of love or nurturance with little effect on the inner blackness you carry around with you.”

— Daphne Merkin

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