Top 200 Katherine Center Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Maybe love isn’t a judgment you render – but a chance you take. Maybe it’s something you choose to do over and over. For yourself and everyone else.”

— Katherine Center

152. “Only do not forget, if I wake up crying, it’s only because in my dream I’m a lost child, hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands.”

— Katherine Center

153. “This is what it means to be fully alive. To feel it all – the joy and the sorrow, the hope and the fear. This is what life demands of us. You just have to stay, and try, and let life break your heart.”

— Katherine Center

154. “They will ignore you. They will exclude you. They will resent you. Being nice won’t help. Working hard won’t matter. Just by your very presence there, you are attacking them, trying to steal something that’s rightfully theirs, trying to infiltrate and dismantle their brotherhood.”

— Katherine Center

155. “Love makes you muddled. Love clouds your judgment. Love derails you with longing.”

— Katherine Center

156. “There’s so much death in that world, but laughter is life. You need it.”

— Katherine Center

157. “We could have let it all go long before now. We could have tried less hard. We could have given up in the face of all our misunderstandings. But we didn’t. It takes a certain kind of courage to be brave in love. A courage you can only get better at through practice.”

— Katherine Center

158. “And the idea that anything could just disappear at any moment is something you suddenly understand in a whole new way.”

— Katherine Center

159. “The answer wasn’t to never love anyone. It was to love like crazy whenever you could.”

— Katherine Center

160. “The more good things you look for, the more you find.”

— Katherine Center

161. “I’d saved her, but she’d saved me right back.”

— Katherine Center

162. “Our thoughts create our emotions. So if you fixate on your worst-case scenario, you’ll make things harder for yourself.”

— Katherine Center

163. “But now I saw the emotional landscape quite differently – more like the pointillism of a Seurat painting: each color made up of many other colors. Look closely, and it’s dots. Stand back, and it’s an afternoon on the lake – all the colors relying on each other for texture and meaning.”

— Katherine Center

164. “I thought that the only way to be close was to stay far away.”

— Katherine Center

165. “All the hardships and insults and disappointments in life didn’t make this one blissful moment less important. They made it more. They made it matter. The very fact that it couldn’t last was that reason to hold on to it – however, we could.”

— Katherine Center

166. “But she was gone before I even fully realized that losing her was possible.”

— Katherine Center

167. “But I guess that’s the great thing about life – it gives you chance after chance to rethink it all. Who you want to be. How you want to live. What really matters.”

— Katherine Center

168. “All I knew was that watching your children survive their childhoods was so much worse than surviving your own.”

— Katherine Center

169. “You can’t make people love you. But you can give the love you long for out to the world. You can be the love you wish you had. That’s the way to be okay. Because giving love to other people is a way of giving it to yourself.”

— Katherine Center

170. “Needing to find a reason to live had forced me to build a life worth living. I would never say the accident was a good thing. I would never claim that everything happens for a reason. Like all tragedies, it was senseless. But the one thing I knew for sure: The greater our capacity for sorrow becomes, the greater our capacity for joy.”

— Katherine Center

171. “If we were in England, we could call him a shag bandit.”

— Katherine Center

172. “People loving you for your best qualities is not the same as people loving you despite your worst.”

— Katherine Center

173. “And I guess there really is something profoundly healing about letting somebody love you.”

— Katherine Center

174. “But I find the antidote to that is just keeping a sense of humor. And staying humble. And laughing a lot. And doubling down on smiling. We’re all just muddling through, after all. We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.”

— Katherine Center

175. “Things happen. Lives get broken. Some people never can put themselves back together.”

— Katherine Center

176. “But getting dumped lasts forever. Because a person who loved you decided not to love you anymore.”

— Katherine Center

177. “The most important thing to remember is that getting what you want doesn’t make you happy.”

— Katherine Center

178. “It’s not all that often that people who’ve wronged you actually apologize. Usually, in my experience, they go on and on maintaining their innocence. Insisting that they weren’t so bad, or they had their reasons, or you were somehow partly to blame.”

— Katherine Center

179. “That was me, apparently: scared of cows, and scared of love.”

— Katherine Center

180. “At this point, it was more like a collage than a picture. Lots of little pieces and some glue.”

— Katherine Center

181. “Wow. There was something so inspiring about being so underestimated.”

— Katherine Center

182. “The people we love help teach us who we are.”

— Katherine Center

183. “I think just because you can’t keep something doesn’t mean it wasn’t worth it. Nothing lasts forever. What matters is what we take with us.”

— Katherine Center

184. “All we can do is put away our anger, and our blame, and our guns” – see what I did there? – “and try to make things better instead of worse. That’s the only answer there is.”

— Katherine Center

185. “It really left me thinking about what stories are for.”

— Katherine Center

186. “And the truest thing I knew about myself was this: I was always happy when I was making things.”

— Katherine Center

187. “Every now and then, something really, genuinely true cuts through all the chaos of life and just gets your full attention.”

— Katherine Center

188. “Sometimes anybody really isn’t better than nobody.”

— Katherine Center

189. “I know why women don’t speak out. It’s hard enough just to survive.”

— Katherine Center

190. “And loving other people really does turn out, in the end, to be a genuine way of loving yourself.”

— Katherine Center

191. “Usually, when you see people for the last time, you don’t know it’s the last time.”

— Katherine Center

192. “It’s as if loving somebody – really, bravely, just all-in loving somebody – is a doorway to something divine.”

— Katherine Center

193. “The more connection I got, the more I wanted. You know, like when you take a nap, but when you wake up you’re somehow sleepier than you were before? That was me, all the time – with humanity.”

— Katherine Center

194. “People who wanted to wrestle with complicated emotions became therapists, or poets. People who wanted to keep things simple became firefighters.”

— Katherine Center

195. “I didn’t like her, but I loved her. And he’d underestimated me, as well. Because it’s so much harder to love someone who’s difficult than to love someone who’s easy.”

— Katherine Center

196. “We’re all just doing the best we can. We’re all struggling with our struggles. Nobody has the answers. And everybody, deep down, is a little bit lost.”

— Katherine Center

197. “Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.”

— Katherine Center

198. “Well, children can’t see their parents clearly until they grow up.”

— Katherine Center

199. “It doesn’t hurt to spend your life with people who see what’s great about you – in a way that you maybe never would have on your own. The people we love to teach us who we are.”

— Katherine Center

200. “I knew too much about life to pretend that it wasn’t half tragedy. We lose the people we love. We disappoint each other. We misunderstand. We get lost and lonely and angry. But right now, in this moment, we were okay.”

— Katherine Center