Top 200 Katherine Center Quotes (2026 Update)
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151. “But getting dumped lasts forever. Because a person who loved you decided not to love you anymore.”

— Katherine Center

152. “The things we remember are what we hold on to. And what we hold on to becomes the story of our lives.”

— Katherine Center

153. “I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn’t have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship.”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

155. “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

156. “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

157. “The point is to be happy anyway. As often as you can.”

— Katherine Center

158. “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

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

162. “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

163. “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

164. “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

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

167. “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

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

170. “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

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

173. “So I decided something right then: Every chance you take is a choice. A choice to decide who you are.”

— Katherine Center

174. “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

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

179. “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

180. “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

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

— Katherine Center

182. “I’ve spent so much time wishing that what happened never happened. But it did. And the question I try to focus on is, What now?”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

184. “I didn’t know what to do with the sadness that was soaking into my heart. It felt so full, I could wring it out like a sponge. What did people do with sadness like this? How did they dry it out?”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

186. “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

187. “Is everything perfect? Hell, no. Everything’s a mess. A crazy, galloping, heartbreaking mess. You can’t fix everything. Not even close. But you can look for reasons to be grateful. More than that, you can work to create them.”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

189. “I would never tell you that the life you wanted couldn’t have been exactly as great as you planned. But you have to live the life you have. You have to find inspiration in the struggle, and pull joy out of the hardship. That’s what we try to do – counterbalance the suffering with laughter, fuzzy blankets, hugs, sing-alongs, sunny-day picnics, chocolate chip cookies, and wildflowers. Because that’s all we can do: carry the sorrow when we have to, and absolutely savor the joy when we can.”

— Katherine Center

190. “But you can decide to do something joyful.”

— Katherine Center

191. “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

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

— Katherine Center

193. “Was he flirting with me or being a pain? Had he already won me over, or did I still have a choice?”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

196. “And here, right here, is the trouble with being close to other people. The better they know you, the better they can hurt you.”

— Katherine Center

197. “Every real human interaction is made up of a million tiny moving pieces. Not a simple one-note situation: a symphony of cues to read and decipher and evaluate and pay attention.”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center

199. “Isn’t it lucky when we’re drawn to people who can teach us things we need to learn?”

— Katherine Center

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

— Katherine Center