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Top 15 Josephine Humphreys Quotes (2024 Update)

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.”

1. “When people say they are happy for you it may mean they are sad for themselves.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure – like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don’t change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.”

2. “People do sometimes change, of course. Habits, allegiances, dreams are all alterable, but only under extraordinary pressure – like great love, fear, grief. More often, people don’t change. A girl who never missed a day of work does not suddenly decide to stay home in bed, for no good reason.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “You can’t drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”

3. “You can’t drown yourself that simply. All good suicides involve speed and irreversibility, because the body will always move to protect itself against the sicko mind trying to do it in.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another’s gestures.”

4. “You know a relationship has deteriorated past the point of salvage when one person detests another’s gestures.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “Bobbie Ann Mason’s genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.”

5. “Bobbie Ann Mason’s genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “Oh, the world appears to work smoothly enough, like a toy town where the only business is the constant shifting of goods and wastes. If that were all, how easy to live – buy your food, put out the garbage. But the toys and models and dolls and the world’s looks are treacherous. They teach children it will be easy. The real problem of consumption and disposal are nothing like what children are led to suspect.”

6. “Oh, the world appears to work smoothly enough, like a toy town where the only business is the constant shifting of goods and wastes. If that were all, how easy to live – buy your food, put out the garbage. But the toys and models and dolls and the world’s looks are treacherous. They teach children it will be easy. The real problem of consumption and disposal are nothing like what children are led to suspect.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.”

7. “The shape of his head, the set of his shoulders are a pattern she could recognize and love out of a crowd of shadows.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.”

8. “Like most good looking women, she was never sure of her beauty, and had to keep checking on it, to make sure it was still there.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, “Isn’t it dangerous?” Iris said, “I don’t know. I guess it could be, if you’re afraid. I’m not because it’s just something I’ve always done. I mean, if you live in it you aren’t scared of it.”

9. “But Iris walks through the project every day. Alice asked, “Isn’t it dangerous?” Iris said, “I don’t know. I guess it could be, if you’re afraid. I’m not because it’s just something I’ve always done. I mean, if you live in it you aren’t scared of it.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “People Should not be protected from the world... -It cripples them.”

10. “People Should not be protected from the world... -It cripples them.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice – and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.”

11. “I read Butterfly’s Child in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justice – and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “But the moods could be contagious. He didn’t need one right now.”

12. “But the moods could be contagious. He didn’t need one right now.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what’s found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They’ll give up dreams for that.”

13. “Why do philosophers in the South so often end as newspapermen, poets as doctors? Maybe they crave what’s found in pain and loss: a sense of living among other human beings. They’ll give up dreams for that.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “He longed for a heart like the one his friend was getting, an unstoppable pump that would not falter. Danny might appear to be in trouble, but he never really is, he has this secret strength. Now, though he’s lost fifty thousand dollars in a golf-course scheme and his ex-wife is suing him and he lives without furniture, these are minor details. The man is complete. Self-destructive to some extent, but whole enough to take it.”

14. “He longed for a heart like the one his friend was getting, an unstoppable pump that would not falter. Danny might appear to be in trouble, but he never really is, he has this secret strength. Now, though he’s lost fifty thousand dollars in a golf-course scheme and his ex-wife is suing him and he lives without furniture, these are minor details. The man is complete. Self-destructive to some extent, but whole enough to take it.”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “Growing up in an old city, you learn history’s one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without immense effort. His own strong house is in a constant process of disintegration. He calls workmen to come repair the roof, paint the porches, replace sills; but even this work has no permanence, it will have to be done again in four or five years. Is this noble activity for a man? Patching, gluing, temporizing, begging for time?”

15. “Growing up in an old city, you learn history’s one true lesson: that history fades. Nothing sticks together for very long without immense effort. His own strong house is in a constant process of disintegration. He calls workmen to come repair the roof, paint the porches, replace sills; but even this work has no permanence, it will have to be done again in four or five years. Is this noble activity for a man? Patching, gluing, temporizing, begging for time?”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “If she were their mother she’d teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people into thinking they must stay where the things are. Leave it all, she’d teach them, even your hopes, and all the dreams of safe, calm places. Go with what is most terrifying, the dizzying empty night and the lonely stars until night slows and you see the whole design. Always choose love over safety if you can tell the difference...”

16. “If she were their mother she’d teach them these things are nothing, the clothes and toys and furniture. These things fool people into thinking they must stay where the things are. Leave it all, she’d teach them, even your hopes, and all the dreams of safe, calm places. Go with what is most terrifying, the dizzying empty night and the lonely stars until night slows and you see the whole design. Always choose love over safety if you can tell the difference...”

— Josephine Humphreys

Josephine Humphreys Quote: “She knew what she looked like – someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.”

17. “She knew what she looked like – someone at the edge of catastrophe, someone already flinching from a blow that had not yet been delivered.”

— Josephine Humphreys

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