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Top 20 Laura van den Berg Quotes (2025 Update)

Laura van den Berg Quote: “The two impulses cannot be separated. The desire to have a life and the desire to disappear from it. The world is unlivable and yet we live in it every day.”

1. “The two impulses cannot be separated. The desire to have a life and the desire to disappear from it. The world is unlivable and yet we live in it every day.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, Clare said, with bitterness. What doesn’t kill you leaves you alive, Richard countered. She spat water onto the floor. What doesn’t kill you only leaves you feeling broken and insane.”

2. “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, Clare said, with bitterness. What doesn’t kill you leaves you alive, Richard countered. She spat water onto the floor. What doesn’t kill you only leaves you feeling broken and insane.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “Death could make a person feel righteous in a way they had no right to be. Nothing in the world was less personal and nothing felt more like a poison arrow sent straight for your heart.”

3. “Death could make a person feel righteous in a way they had no right to be. Nothing in the world was less personal and nothing felt more like a poison arrow sent straight for your heart.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “Easygoing” – that was the world people used, and in time she became suspicious of anyone who could be described in such terms. What was so easy about going?”

4. “Easygoing” – that was the world people used, and in time she became suspicious of anyone who could be described in such terms. What was so easy about going?”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “She did not know how to grieve in the context of her life.”

5. “She did not know how to grieve in the context of her life.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “Horror films had taught her that a person could will a thing into existence, but once it was outside their consciousness, the consciousness that had been busily inventing simultaneous possibilities, it became a force unto itself, ferocious and uncontrollable.”

6. “Horror films had taught her that a person could will a thing into existence, but once it was outside their consciousness, the consciousness that had been busily inventing simultaneous possibilities, it became a force unto itself, ferocious and uncontrollable.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “She could go on into infinity, and yet she understood that knowing another person was not a stable condition. Knowing was kinetic, ineffable, and it had limits, but the precise location of those limits, the moment at which the knowing stopped and the not-knowing began, was invisible. You would know you had reached the border only after you had surpassed it.”

7. “She could go on into infinity, and yet she understood that knowing another person was not a stable condition. Knowing was kinetic, ineffable, and it had limits, but the precise location of those limits, the moment at which the knowing stopped and the not-knowing began, was invisible. You would know you had reached the border only after you had surpassed it.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “If your unconscious mind wishes you to be well, you are well. If it wishes you to be sick, you become sick. If it wishes you to die, you die.”

8. “If your unconscious mind wishes you to be well, you are well. If it wishes you to be sick, you become sick. If it wishes you to die, you die.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?”

9. “Is there any greater mystery than the separateness of each person?”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “A nightmare becomes a nightmare when you start to believe it will never end.”

10. “A nightmare becomes a nightmare when you start to believe it will never end.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “Grief could take the form of violence too, could give a false sense of permission, erase the world around, and that was what frightened Clare most about violence, how transferable it was.”

11. “Grief could take the form of violence too, could give a false sense of permission, erase the world around, and that was what frightened Clare most about violence, how transferable it was.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “If you have no way to mark the hours, no variance in the days, time will open its mouth and swallow you.”

12. “If you have no way to mark the hours, no variance in the days, time will open its mouth and swallow you.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “It was brutal, the mortality contract. It came for everyone and no one was prepared.”

13. “It was brutal, the mortality contract. It came for everyone and no one was prepared.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “Hope is a seductive thing,” he says. “Hope can make people lose all sense.”

14. “Hope is a seductive thing,” he says. “Hope can make people lose all sense.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “She might have said, I am not who you think I am. She might have said, I am experiencing a dislocation of reality.”

15. “She might have said, I am not who you think I am. She might have said, I am experiencing a dislocation of reality.”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “The five scientists from the Brazilian station always sat at their own table, isolated by their tragedy, which I understood. After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief.”

16. “The five scientists from the Brazilian station always sat at their own table, isolated by their tragedy, which I understood. After my parents died, it took me months before I could carry on a conversation with someone who had not known them, who expected me to be young and sparkling and untouched by grief.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “I wondered if God found people like me annoying, those who turned to prayer only when they were neck-deep, that terrible friend we’ve all had.”

17. “I wondered if God found people like me annoying, those who turned to prayer only when they were neck-deep, that terrible friend we’ve all had.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “I have started to think of the sickness not as a single, contained catastrophe, but as part of a series of waves. We are still burning. What will be the wave that puts us out?”

18. “I have started to think of the sickness not as a single, contained catastrophe, but as part of a series of waves. We are still burning. What will be the wave that puts us out?”

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Laura van den Berg Quote: “Intimacy could distort one’s vantage, that much was true. Sometimes trying to see the whole of a person could be like describing a painting with your nose pressed to the canvas, though my husband would have argued that I hadn’t wanted to see from a different angle, hadn’t wanted to step back.”

19. “Intimacy could distort one’s vantage, that much was true. Sometimes trying to see the whole of a person could be like describing a painting with your nose pressed to the canvas, though my husband would have argued that I hadn’t wanted to see from a different angle, hadn’t wanted to step back.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “I’ve lost the desire to hold onto that last physical artifact of the life I once had, as though I was buried and re-emerged as a person who doesn’t believe in anything except the way existence rages on, furiously unconscious of when one life ends and another begins.”

20. “I’ve lost the desire to hold onto that last physical artifact of the life I once had, as though I was buried and re-emerged as a person who doesn’t believe in anything except the way existence rages on, furiously unconscious of when one life ends and another begins.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “Maybe it was my imagination, or maybe I wanted someone to blame. I was willing to entertain those possibilities. What I didn’t understand was why I couldn’t do anything more than stand around in pain.”

21. “Maybe it was my imagination, or maybe I wanted someone to blame. I was willing to entertain those possibilities. What I didn’t understand was why I couldn’t do anything more than stand around in pain.”

— Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg Quote: “The big alone,” he said. “That’s all any of us has in the end. Nothing can protect us from it, not careers or children or spouses or money or lovers.”

22. “The big alone,” he said. “That’s all any of us has in the end. Nothing can protect us from it, not careers or children or spouses or money or lovers.”

— Laura van den Berg

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