Top 100 Karen White Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Sometimes I guess you need to lose everything before you realize what’s really important.”

— Karen White

2. “Sometimes hope is all we have, and to lose that is to lose all.”

— Karen White

3. “Life doesn’t get easier. We just get stronger.”

— Karen White

4. “You have to get through the rain if you’re ever going to see a rainbow.”

— Karen White

5. “They say that not matter how old you become, when you are with your siblings, you revert back to childhood.”

— Karen White

6. “Everybody dies. But not everybody lives.”

— Karen White

7. “A life without rain is like the sun without shade.”

— Karen White

8. “Moving on doesn’t mean forgetting.”

— Karen White

9. “You ain’t dead yet, so you ain’t done.”

— Karen White

10. “There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It’s how we live with them that make us the people we are.”

— Karen White

11. “We all need something to soften the sharp edges. To give us balance. Otherwise, I think we’d find ourselves stumbling around in the dark like lost souls.”

— Karen White

12. “Apparently, a good friend helps you bury a body. A best friend brings their own shovel and doesn’t ask questions.”

— Karen White

13. “Jumping to conclusions is often the only exercise some people get, and is always easier than finding the patience to discover the truth.”

— Karen White

14. “People have different ways of expressing love. It doesn’t mean the love is worth any less.”

— Karen White

15. “Great tragedy gives us opportunities for great kindness.”

— Karen White

16. “Even in the blackest darkness, there is always light shining somewhere.”

— Karen White

17. “It’ll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won’t hurt so much.”

— Karen White

18. “The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn’t know when to change lanes.”

— Karen White

19. “To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.”

— Karen White

20. “Those who refuse to acknowledge the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— Karen White

21. “A secret society exists, and is living among all of us. They are neither people nor animals, but something in-between.”

— Karen White

22. “Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.”

— Karen White

23. “There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.”

— Karen White

24. “We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.”

— Karen White

25. “Survival is like a stone wall, and kindness is a door.”

— Karen White

26. “I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you’re sure God will answer your prayer just so you’ll stop asking.”

— Karen White

27. “Strong winds buffet the sea oats and tall dune grasses, tossing sand and seabirds where it will, winding my sister’s golden hair into sunlit spirals of silk until it becomes the only good memory I have of her – the only memory I allowed myself to keep.”

— Karen White

28. “Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.”

— Karen White

29. “Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, thank you very much. Have no interest in a repeat performance.” So.”

— Karen White

30. “The answers we seek aren’t always the answers we want, are they? But knowing the truth is what helps us sleep at night.”

— Karen White

31. “You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.”

— Karen White

32. “Do you have mosquitoes in Maine?” Owen asked. “Oh, yes. The mosquito is the unofficial state bird of Maine, I think.” He grinned. “Daddy used to say that about Georgia.” “Well, South Carolina’s is the palmetto bug, just in case you were wondering.”

— Karen White

33. “But there is room now in my heart for more memories, carved by a letting go that I could find only by coming home to a place I’d never been.”

— Karen White

34. “Is your father,” Margie completed for me. “Which makes Prunella Pratt your father’s stepmother, which I suppose means that Harry Pratt was your stepgrandfather? Or something like that.”

— Karen White

35. “Every woman needs a daughter to tell her stories to.”

— Karen White

36. “You’re strong at the broken places.”

— Karen White

37. “She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn’t preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.”

— Karen White

38. “Sugar, your clothes should always be tight enough to show that you’re a woman, but loose enough to show that you’re a lady.” She.”

— Karen White

39. “Miles and years become suddenly invisible when you find yourself back where you started from, as if you’ve learned nothing and you are once again the person you once were.”

— Karen White

40. “Did you know that all clown fish start off as boys and later on in their lives become girls?”

— Karen White

41. “Everything I’ve ever learned has brought me to this one conclusion – we are all thrown into this world without a road map, and it’s up to us to muddle through. We are free to make a mess of it or to make a success out of our lives. Most of us choose something in between.”

— Karen White

42. “I learned the hard way that you can’t spend your whole life facing the wrong way. You’ll never see what’s ahead of you if all you ever see are ghosts of your past.”

— Karen White

43. “Throughout our lives we are all falling. Falling down, falling out, falling away. Falling in love. The trick is finding someone to catch us. And sometimes we surprise ourselves by finding out that person is us.”

— Karen White

44. “They sat in silence, watching the river flow in the same direction it always had, a ribbon connecting the past with the present, and a reminder that time moved on regardless of whether you wanted it too.”

— Karen White

45. “Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi’s incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.”

— Karen White

46. “I’ve always thought that old clothes are a lot like old houses; they bring the past and present together.”

— Karen White

47. “It’s not only ghosts who haunt us. Our memories follow us through life, surprising us now and again when we are forced to turn around and look behind us.”

— Karen White

48. “I don’t hold on grudges, you know. They’re like expired milk in the fridge.”

— Karen White

49. “The feelings I had for my sister were jumbled together, like the monkeys in a barrel game we’d had as children. All the brightly colored monkeys with their curved arms tangled and entwined, so convoluted that it was almost impossible to separate them.”

— Karen White

50. “There are times when fear needs to be in the driver’s seat. The best learning and growing happens when wisdom is won from pain.”

— Karen White