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Top 20 Lydia Millet Quotes (2025 Update)

Lydia Millet Quote: “Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.”

1. “Called by the sirens and followed by an albatross.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Molecules never die, I thought. Hadn’t they told us that in chemistry? Hadn’t they said a molecule of Julius Caesar’s dying breath was, statistically speaking, in every breath we took? Same with Lincoln. Or our grandparents. Molecules exchanging and mingling, on and on. Particles that had once been others and now moved through us. “Evie!” said Jack. “Look! I found a sand dollar!” That was the sad thing about my molecules: they wouldn’t remember him.”

2. “Molecules never die, I thought. Hadn’t they told us that in chemistry? Hadn’t they said a molecule of Julius Caesar’s dying breath was, statistically speaking, in every breath we took? Same with Lincoln. Or our grandparents. Molecules exchanging and mingling, on and on. Particles that had once been others and now moved through us. “Evie!” said Jack. “Look! I found a sand dollar!” That was the sad thing about my molecules: they wouldn’t remember him.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

3. “It is not learning we need at all. Individuals need learning but the culture needs something else, the pulse of light on the sea, the warm urge of huddling together to keep out the cold. We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”

4. “The gun is mightier than the pen, was our true opinion, and the RPG is mightier still.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”

5. “Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

6. “We need empathy, we need the eyes that still can weep.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”

7. “Suffering itself is beloved: love and suffering are far closer to each other than love and pleasure.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate from within – and not because their art was loved or understood but because it could be sold and bought for handsome sums.”

8. “There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings by dead men, lit so carefully that warmth seemed to emanate from within – and not because their art was loved or understood but because it could be sold and bought for handsome sums.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.”

9. “Stay in these rooms for years and years, live on forever in a glorious museum.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity...”

10. “Suffering ignites the spark of contact with the sublime and offers proof of humanity...”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “You don’t see a fish in a chair often.”

11. “You don’t see a fish in a chair often.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “We’re so many, we’re so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished...”

12. “We’re so many, we’re so hard to distinguish from each other, but we long to be distinguished...”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization’s technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other’s guts.”

13. “We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization’s technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other’s guts.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.”

14. “Because boys, and later men, regardless of their best intentions often seemed to yearn for something they just never succeeded in defining. You pitied them for it, your heart went out to them, but still there was a chronic gap between what they should be and what they were capable of being. Into that gap civilization fell.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”

15. “Beyond aspects of pain that are physical, thought Oppenheimer, sickness or injury or privation, beyond the so-called obvious, suffering can be a work of art. It can be made of buried and rising things, helpless and undiscovered, song of frustrated want, silence after desire. It can be the test of the self falling short, constrained, distorted, disturbed or rebuffed, the vacuum left by longing, call without an answer.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Once we lived in a summer country.”

16. “Once we lived in a summer country.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Kate Bernheimer’s fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.”

17. “Kate Bernheimer’s fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free.”

18. “If you could be nothing, you could also be everything. Once my molecules had dispersed, I would be here forever. Free.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “He hated the American way of thought that said all things could be repaired, all things surmounted by a trick of attitude. History is trivial in this country, he said. Forgetting is the way to bliss. Ignorance is a badge of honor.”

19. “He hated the American way of thought that said all things could be repaired, all things surmounted by a trick of attitude. History is trivial in this country, he said. Forgetting is the way to bliss. Ignorance is a badge of honor.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “When we ran, if we chose to, we ran like flashes of silk. We had the vigor of those freshly born. Relatively speaking. And no, we wouldn’t be like this forever. We knew it, on a rational level. But the idea that those garbage-like figures that tottered around the great house were a vision of what lay in store – hell no. Had they had goals once? A simple sense of self-respect? They shamed us. They were a cautionary tale.”

20. “When we ran, if we chose to, we ran like flashes of silk. We had the vigor of those freshly born. Relatively speaking. And no, we wouldn’t be like this forever. We knew it, on a rational level. But the idea that those garbage-like figures that tottered around the great house were a vision of what lay in store – hell no. Had they had goals once? A simple sense of self-respect? They shamed us. They were a cautionary tale.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “Maybe surrender, when it was called for, was the hard part. Not the fight.”

21. “Maybe surrender, when it was called for, was the hard part. Not the fight.”

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Lydia Millet Quote: “One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed up well. We liked to have an impact. When we were done, the lipstick went back into some mother’s Fendi handbag. We watched her apply it, unaware. That was satisfying.”

22. “One dog got makeup applied to its face, lipstick and blue eye shadow. It was a white-faced dog, so the makeup showed up well. We liked to have an impact. When we were done, the lipstick went back into some mother’s Fendi handbag. We watched her apply it, unaware. That was satisfying.”

— Lydia Millet

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