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Top 25 Kyo Maclear Quotes (2025 Update)

Kyo Maclear Quote: “It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as “anticipatory grief,” the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory. This grief had a dampness. It did not drench or drown me, but it hung in the air like a pallid cloud, thinning but never entirely vanishing. It followed me wherever I went and gradually I grew used to looking at the world through it.”

1. “It is possible too that I was experiencing something known as “anticipatory grief,” the mourning that occurs before a certain loss. Anticipatory. Expectatory. Trepidatory. This grief had a dampness. It did not drench or drown me, but it hung in the air like a pallid cloud, thinning but never entirely vanishing. It followed me wherever I went and gradually I grew used to looking at the world through it.”

— Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear Quote: “If you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”

2. “If you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Sometimes you have to have the lightest touch to lift a heavy heart, to speak at all.”

3. “Sometimes you have to have the lightest touch to lift a heavy heart, to speak at all.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it’s exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again.”

4. “Sometimes we falter not because the ground beneath our feet is unstable but because it’s exhausting to keep moving, to keep trying, to keep performing the same actions again and again.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Or maybe I discovered something more fundamental: worry is a constriction. A mind narrows when it has too much to bear. Art is not born of unwanted constriction. Art wants formless and spacious quiet, anti-social daydreaming, time away from the consumptive volume of everyday life.”

5. “Or maybe I discovered something more fundamental: worry is a constriction. A mind narrows when it has too much to bear. Art is not born of unwanted constriction. Art wants formless and spacious quiet, anti-social daydreaming, time away from the consumptive volume of everyday life.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.”

6. “It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.”

7. “I like the idea of songs sung by those without big voices. You know, small birdsongs that rise above the noise of the city.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “How do you survive the survivor?”

8. “How do you survive the survivor?”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?”

9. “How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “There are moments when what we need, what will benefit us most, is the power to style our own stories.”

10. “There are moments when what we need, what will benefit us most, is the power to style our own stories.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”

11. “The birders I encountered in books and in the world shared little in common except this simple secret: if you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “On the satisfactions of small birds and small art and the audacity of aiming tiny in an age of big ambitions.”

12. “On the satisfactions of small birds and small art and the audacity of aiming tiny in an age of big ambitions.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.”

13. “If I were flying, I would travel to a perfect place. A place with frosted cakes and beautiful flowers and excellent trees to climb and absolutely no doldrums.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “When he fell in love with birds and began to photograph them, his anxieties dissipated. The sound of birdsong reminded him to look outwards at the world.”

14. “When he fell in love with birds and began to photograph them, his anxieties dissipated. The sound of birdsong reminded him to look outwards at the world.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “But I remember thinking it seemed cruel that a bird should be punished for believing it could fly.”

15. “But I remember thinking it seemed cruel that a bird should be punished for believing it could fly.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.”

16. “I am reminded of yet one more reason why I avoid children, why I have remained intentionally childless. Children make ruthless biographers and terrifying judges.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Sometimes books have housed me and sometimes they have encased me.”

17. “Sometimes books have housed me and sometimes they have encased me.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. We are unable to truly grasp how much of the natural world has been altered and destroyed by our actions because the baseline shifts over time and generations have rendered us blind. Our standards have been lowered almost unnoticeably. What we might regard as pristine nature today is a shadow of what once existed. We can’t seem to remember how things used to be.”

18. “Our faulty memories and relatively short lifespans have made us unreliable witnesses. We are unable to truly grasp how much of the natural world has been altered and destroyed by our actions because the baseline shifts over time and generations have rendered us blind. Our standards have been lowered almost unnoticeably. What we might regard as pristine nature today is a shadow of what once existed. We can’t seem to remember how things used to be.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “What can you do within these narrow lines and this limited time? Who or what is stopping you?”

19. “What can you do within these narrow lines and this limited time? Who or what is stopping you?”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “If you pour everything into the tiny vessel of a song and wear out your heart, what is that? Is that small or big? If you choose to put yourself out there on a small stage, singing for the small somebody inside of you, knowing how quickly songs wane, is that modest or gargantuan?”

20. “If you pour everything into the tiny vessel of a song and wear out your heart, what is that? Is that small or big? If you choose to put yourself out there on a small stage, singing for the small somebody inside of you, knowing how quickly songs wane, is that modest or gargantuan?”

— Kyo Maclear

$Kyo Maclear Quote: “What if I stopped fighting for the trance of long-form days, where I would be uninterrupted and ambitiously absorbed in a big project? What if I gave myself over to time’s dispersion? Could I value the fractured moments as something more than ‘sub-time’ or lost time or broken time? Could I find a graceful way to work and be in the world that might still pull me up and forward?”$

21. “What if I stopped fighting for the trance of long-form days, where I would be uninterrupted and ambitiously absorbed in a big project? What if I gave myself over to time’s dispersion? Could I value the fractured moments as something more than ‘sub-time’ or lost time or broken time? Could I find a graceful way to work and be in the world that might still pull me up and forward?”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.”

22. “Now when I hear birdsong, I feel an entry to that understory. When I am feeling too squeezed on the ground, exhausted by everything in my care, I look for a little sky. There are always birds flying back and forth, city birds flitting around our human edges, singing their songs.”

— Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear Quote: “I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.”

23. “I like smallness. I like the perverse audacity of someone aiming tiny.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move a bit. It is a subtle skill, to remain appreciably steady amid the forces of drift and gravity, to be neither rising nor falling.”

24. “If the wind is going the right way, some birds like to spread their wings and hang in the air, appearing not to move a bit. It is a subtle skill, to remain appreciably steady amid the forces of drift and gravity, to be neither rising nor falling.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away. I glimpsed the real world between paragraphs of novels. I traced words when I might have touched the ground... Sometimes books have housed me and sometimes they have encased me.”

25. “Books have given me great stores of happiness, but if I am honest with myself I can see they have also taken something away. I glimpsed the real world between paragraphs of novels. I traced words when I might have touched the ground... Sometimes books have housed me and sometimes they have encased me.”

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Kyo Maclear Quote: “Later I will tell him: our courage comes out in different ways. We are brave in our bold dreams but also in our hesitations. We are brave in our willingness to carry on even as our pounding hearts say, “You will fail and land on your face.” Brave in our terrific tolerance for making a hundred mistakes. Day after day. We are brave in our persistence.”

26. “Later I will tell him: our courage comes out in different ways. We are brave in our bold dreams but also in our hesitations. We are brave in our willingness to carry on even as our pounding hearts say, “You will fail and land on your face.” Brave in our terrific tolerance for making a hundred mistakes. Day after day. We are brave in our persistence.”

— Kyo Maclear

Kyo Maclear Quote: “What is a heart but a broken masterwork pieced together from desire, envy, regret, nostalgia, pity, tenderness and hope? What is a heart but a way of muscling your way onward? What is a heart but a fist?”

27. “What is a heart but a broken masterwork pieced together from desire, envy, regret, nostalgia, pity, tenderness and hope? What is a heart but a way of muscling your way onward? What is a heart but a fist?”

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