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Top 25 Jackie Kay Quotes (2024 Update)

Jackie Kay Quote: “When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

1. “When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There’s a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you’d gone the other way, death would have been a different home.”

2. “Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There’s a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you’d gone the other way, death would have been a different home.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Life is too short to argue about time.”

3. “Life is too short to argue about time.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Loss isn’t an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn’t look like anything, that’s what is so strange. It just fits in.”

4. “Loss isn’t an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn’t look like anything, that’s what is so strange. It just fits in.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”

5. “Sometimes you remember your life in photographs that were never taken.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.”

6. “Weather here in this part of the world is just as moody, just as subjective and disloyal, as people.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It’s not so much that you’ve lost your memory, more like you’re submerged in it, like you’re living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.”

7. “How blazing and alive the past is. The color of the wallpaper in the bedroom you had as a girl. It’s not so much that you’ve lost your memory, more like you’re submerged in it, like you’re living in the brightly vivid underwater world of the past.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?”

8. “How bizarre, i think to myself, to be on a train and to actually not want to arrive anywhere? What kind of madness is that?”

Jackie Kay Quote: “I think I’ll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?”

9. “I think I’ll get a nut roast. Maybe a nut roast is too lesbian?”

Jackie Kay Quote: “The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn’t matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.”

10. “The terrible thing about pain is that it doesn’t matter, it still hurts. It hurts like hell.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “You noticed things. You’re not sure when you start. It’s only when you’ve noticed – noticed that you know you’ve noticed. Maybe between the first time when you’re staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there’s a silence. A pause.”

11. “You noticed things. You’re not sure when you start. It’s only when you’ve noticed – noticed that you know you’ve noticed. Maybe between the first time when you’re staring to think, Is this what I think it is? and the second time when you think, Yes, between those two times, there’s a silence. A pause.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That’s what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.”

12. “My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That’s what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don’t live inside it any more and it doesn’t rule me.”

13. “Time feels as if it is on the other side of me now, way over, out across the sea, like another country. I don’t live inside it any more and it doesn’t rule me.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.”

14. “They never tell you about that either. How the hardest thing a mother has to do is give her child up, let them go, watch them run.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you’ve been taken into the past.”

15. “When it rains like that, dark in the afternoon, you feel like you’ve been taken into the past.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “The heat comes off the music.”

16. “The heat comes off the music.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.”

17. “I didn’t feel like I was missing anything. Nor did I feel ambitious any more. It all seemed stupid wanting to be better than the others in the same ring, shallow, pointless.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.”

18. “The sound of his sleep, the snores and sighs and small noices, is company.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.”

19. “She walked on and on as though if she walked far enough she might walk this thing out of her. As if by walking long enough, hard enough, she might forget.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “Loss isn’t an absence after all. It is a presence.”

20. “Loss isn’t an absence after all. It is a presence.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “These days I can’t tell what I really feel.”

21. “These days I can’t tell what I really feel.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don’t you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.”

22. “The beautiful have so much easier a time of it than the ugly, don’t you think? They get smiled at the whole time. Strangers offer them things. People notice the beautiful; the beautiful are constantly acknowledged.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “I’ve started to feel very odd within my own life. It’s most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.”

23. “I’ve started to feel very odd within my own life. It’s most peculiar to feel lonely inside your own life.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.”

24. “More than anything else, more than your body, or the food you eat, you are your teeth. Life is a journey from milk teeth to false teeth with fillings and crowns thrown in in between for relief.”

Jackie Kay Quote: “I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over.”

25. “I know I am capable of loving to the full capacity, of not being frightened of loving too much, of giving myself up and over.”

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