Create Yours

Top 80 Eve Babitz Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 2 of 2

Eve Babitz Quote: “And he left. What discipline. I guess that is what they mean by “character” on the East Coast: leaving summer behind.”

51. “And he left. What discipline. I guess that is what they mean by “character” on the East Coast: leaving summer behind.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.”

52. “She knew exactly, sort of, what she was going to do.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Women are prepared to suffer for love; it’s written into their birth certificates.”

53. “Women are prepared to suffer for love; it’s written into their birth certificates.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “I always think something to look forward to is usually better than the thing itself. At least looking forward to something gives you the will to live.”

54. “I always think something to look forward to is usually better than the thing itself. At least looking forward to something gives you the will to live.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Work and love – the two best things – flourish in studios. It’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear.”

55. “Work and love – the two best things – flourish in studios. It’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I’d given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.”

56. “Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I’d given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent – and I guess some people never were.”

57. “But to be corrupt, you must once have been innocent – and I guess some people never were.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “But love, once it dyes our hearts purple, won’t go away. Especially the kind of love we used to feel when we were young, the kind we wish we could feel again for someone new.”

58. “But love, once it dyes our hearts purple, won’t go away. Especially the kind of love we used to feel when we were young, the kind we wish we could feel again for someone new.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “The thing about prisons of your own devise is that most of them are designed for traveling and can be taken anywhere, even from small towns in Michigan where you were ugly, all the way to glamorous rock shows where you have to have a pass to get backstage.”

59. “The thing about prisons of your own devise is that most of them are designed for traveling and can be taken anywhere, even from small towns in Michigan where you were ugly, all the way to glamorous rock shows where you have to have a pass to get backstage.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “After all, historically it’s always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was “It’s going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it.” I.”

60. “After all, historically it’s always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was “It’s going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it.” I.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “As far as I’m concerned, you can’t have fun in a high neckline – I don’t care how witty you are.”

61. “As far as I’m concerned, you can’t have fun in a high neckline – I don’t care how witty you are.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “That always seemed like the whole thing; they’ll let you have stories, but you can’t ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it’s one of the charms of the place. Certain things don’t have to be thought about carefully because you’re always being pushed from behind. It’s like a tunnel where there’s no sky.”

62. “That always seemed like the whole thing; they’ll let you have stories, but you can’t ever think in a certain way. There are no spaces between the words, it’s one of the charms of the place. Certain things don’t have to be thought about carefully because you’re always being pushed from behind. It’s like a tunnel where there’s no sky.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imaginations with the greatest intensity becomes history.”

63. “We live in a world where whoever sedates us with the most glamour and captures our imaginations with the greatest intensity becomes history.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “We were hot, the sea was one long wave to be ridden in, our skins were dark, and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment.”

64. “We were hot, the sea was one long wave to be ridden in, our skins were dark, and time even stopped now and then and let things shimmer since time, too, is affected by beauty and will stop sometimes for a moment.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “But then, as I read somewhere recently, narcissists always hurt the one they love the most.”

65. “But then, as I read somewhere recently, narcissists always hurt the one they love the most.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “It seemed to her that she’d been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.”

66. “It seemed to her that she’d been smoking in order to get through the days, not that her days were ornamented by cigarettes.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “The feeling of glamour just wasn’t in the air.”

67. “The feeling of glamour just wasn’t in the air.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “I’m glad I wasn’t seated next to Celia, because what is there to say to someone younger than you who marries for money, except “How do you like your money?”

68. “I’m glad I wasn’t seated next to Celia, because what is there to say to someone younger than you who marries for money, except “How do you like your money?”

Eve Babitz Quote: “The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials.”

69. “The only time men fall in love with roses is on douche commercials.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Most addicts kill themselves by just trying to get some sleep.”

70. “Most addicts kill themselves by just trying to get some sleep.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “You know you’re doing the right thing if you don’t have to tap-dance.”

71. “You know you’re doing the right thing if you don’t have to tap-dance.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Attitude” was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.”

72. “Attitude” was the word they used for someone who knew what they liked.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Once when I testified before a Senate Committee about LSD, Bobby Kennedy asked me how many people I knew smoked marijuana. Brazenly I announced, “Everyone I know smokes marijuana except my grandmother.”

73. “Once when I testified before a Senate Committee about LSD, Bobby Kennedy asked me how many people I knew smoked marijuana. Brazenly I announced, “Everyone I know smokes marijuana except my grandmother.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “New York has a kind of push,” he argues further. “I know. You never have time to think. It’s one of its charms.” “Yeah, it is.”

74. “New York has a kind of push,” he argues further. “I know. You never have time to think. It’s one of its charms.” “Yeah, it is.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “It’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear. In.”

75. “It’s when you have to go outside and define everything that they often disappear. In.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.”

76. “In the Depression, when most of them came here, people with brains went to New York and people with faces came West.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Having spent the day defending myself from the slings and arrows of outrageous truck drivers and busboys, I am sometimes ill-equipped to suddenly assume an air of sensitive melancholy.”

77. “Having spent the day defending myself from the slings and arrows of outrageous truck drivers and busboys, I am sometimes ill-equipped to suddenly assume an air of sensitive melancholy.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “Oh, come on,” he said finally, a secret pleased look just beneath the surface of his face, “you love it here. Admit it.”

78. “Oh, come on,” he said finally, a secret pleased look just beneath the surface of his face, “you love it here. Admit it.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “It was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other than, “Well, I mean, she’s pretty and everything... ” That high gloss, which floored women, went right over men’s heads. It was as though they had no receivers for her particular wavelength.”

79. “It was forever fascinating to me that men never noticed much about Mary other than, “Well, I mean, she’s pretty and everything... ” That high gloss, which floored women, went right over men’s heads. It was as though they had no receivers for her particular wavelength.”

Eve Babitz Quote: “It’s difficult to be truly serious when you’re in a city that can’t even put up a skyscraper for fear the earth will start up one day and bring the whole thing down around everyone’s ears.”

80. “It’s difficult to be truly serious when you’re in a city that can’t even put up a skyscraper for fear the earth will start up one day and bring the whole thing down around everyone’s ears.”

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

PREV 1 2 NEXT

Motivational Quotes

Motivational Quotes

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Positive Quotes

Positive Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

Albert Einstein Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS INSPIRATIONAL

Steve Jobs Quotes

Steve Jobs Quotes

ENTREPRENEURSHIP BUSINESS APPLE

Inspirational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

COURAGE MOTIVATIONAL STRENGTH

INSPIRATIONAL SUCCESS MOTIVATIONAL

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

LIFE SPIRITUALITY

Save image...
Permalink
Open in new tab
Copy quote text

Beautiful Wallpapers and Images

We hope you enjoyed our collection of 80 Eve Babitz Quotes.

All the images on this page were created with QuoteFancy Studio.

Use QuoteFancy Studio to create high-quality images for your desktop backgrounds, blog posts, presentations, social media, videos, posters, and more.

Thank you!

Please check your email.