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Top 160 Dennis Lehane Quotes (2024 Update)

Dennis Lehane Quote: “Which would be worse, to live as a monster or to die as a good man?”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “The foundation of your life is luck. Hard work and talent make up the difference.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “There are so many more important things to worry about than how you’re perceived by strangers.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Narrative becomes the way you make sense of chaos. That’s how you focus the world. It’s the only reason you should ever try this writing job.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Everyone sees different things.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “There are threads in our lives. You pull one, and everything else gets affected.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “In Greek tragedy, they fall from great heights. In noir, they fall from the curb.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Everyone wants a quick fix. We’re tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don’t even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed. Patience and forbearance become the first casualties of progress.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Sympathy’s easy. You have sympathy for starving children swatting at flies on the late-night commercials. Sympathy is easy because it comes from a position of power. Empathy is getting down on your knees and looking someone else in the eye and realizing you could be them, and that all that separates you is luck.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “If you’re not crazy but people have told the world you are, then all your protests to the contrary just underscore their point.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Monsters don’t dress like monsters; they dress like humans. Even stranger, they rarely know they’re the monsters.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “She was his wife, mother, best friend, sister, lover, and priest.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “People just want you to see them as they hope to be seen. And everyone wants to be seen as interesting.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “The world according to Bubba is simple – if it aggravates you, stop it. By whatever means necessary.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “That if you believe, really believe, and if your strategy is sound, and if you’re willing to leave everything you’ve got on the field of battle to win the day” – he held his arms wide – “you can do anything.” She’d.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “We were supposed to grow old together, Dolores. Have kids. Take walks under old trees. I wanted to watch the lines etch themselves into your flesh and know when each and every one of them appeared. Die together.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “This world can only give me reminders of what I don’t have, can never have, didn’t have for long enough.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “How am I supposed to let you go, that’s all I’m asking. I want to hold you again, smell you, and, yes too, I just want you to fade. To please, please fade...”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “You’ve learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Maybe there are some things we were put on this earth not to know.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “God loves violence. You understand that, don’t you?” “No,” Teddy said, “I don’t.” The warden walked a few steps forward and turned to face Teddy. “Why else would there be so much of it? It’s in us. It comes out of us. It is what we do more naturally than we breathe. We wage war. We burn sacrifices. We pillage and tear at the flesh of our brothers. We fill great fields with our stinking dead. And why? To show Him that we’ve learned from His example.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;’You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Happiness doesn’t lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “There’s a bar around the corner. Lemme buy you a drink before the war.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “A complaint that’s not looking for a solution is a disease that’s not looking for a cure.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren’t too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I’ve never written a good line.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “I have a lot of rage about things that didn’t happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world – and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “We age as the rest of the world watches, she thought, but somehow we’re the last to know. There.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “There’s something ugly about the flawless.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Music” – he smiled his glorious smile and raised his index finger – “music speaks for the soul because words are too small.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Achievement? Depends on luck – to be born in the right place at the right time and be of the right color. To live long enough to be in the right place at the right time to make one’s fortune. Yes, yes, hard work and talent make up the difference. They are crucial, and you know I’d never argue different. But the foundation of all lives is luck. Good or bad. Luck is life and life is luck. And it’s leaking from the moment it lands in your hand.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Win for me. Win for my kids. Win for my marriage so I can carry your winning back to the car with me and sit in the glow of it with my family as we drive back toward our otherwise winless lives.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “It’s hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “You can have two families in this life, Joe, the one you’re born to and the one you build.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably – wasn’t fit to be seen.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Waking, after all, was an almost natal state. You surfaced without history, then spent the blinks and yawns reassembling your past, shuffling the shards into chronological order before fortifying yourself for the present.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “Grief,” he said, “is carnivorous. It feeds whether you’re awake or not, whether you fight it or you don’t. Much like cancer. And one morning you wake up and all those other emotions – joy, envy, greed, even love – are swallowed by it. And you’re alone with grief, naked to it. And it owns you.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic – hyper-realistic – stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn’t meld the two.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “I love my burdens.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “We are not special. We are lit from within by a single candle flame and when that flame is blown out and all light leaves our eyes it is the same as if we never existed at all. We don’t own our life. We rent it.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “We live in a world of disposable memory, nothing’s built to last, not even shame.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “I don’t have room in my heart for most people. Got nothing against them, but I got nothing for them, either.”
Dennis Lehane Quote: “I do have my dark days. I suppose everyone does. The difference is that most people don’t kill their husbands with an axe.”
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