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Top 120 Maggie Nelson Quotes (2024 Update)
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Maggie Nelson Quote: “I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.”

101. “I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither toward justice nor away from it.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “And certainly there are many speakers whom I’d like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.”

102. “And certainly there are many speakers whom I’d like to see do more trembling, more unknowing, more apologizing.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “While the two words often arrive sutured together, I think it worthwhile to breathe some space between them, so that one might see “brutal honesty” not as a more forceful version of honesty itself, but as one possible use of honesty. One that doesn’t necessarily lay truth barer by dint of force, but that actually overlays something on top of it – something that can get in its way. That something is cruelty.”

103. “While the two words often arrive sutured together, I think it worthwhile to breathe some space between them, so that one might see “brutal honesty” not as a more forceful version of honesty itself, but as one possible use of honesty. One that doesn’t necessarily lay truth barer by dint of force, but that actually overlays something on top of it – something that can get in its way. That something is cruelty.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “102. After my friend’s accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”

104. “102. After my friend’s accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I’ve so obviously gotten everything I’d ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.”

105. “During our first forays out as a couple, I blushed a lot, felt dizzy with my luck, unable to contain the nearly exploding fact that I’ve so obviously gotten everything I’d ever wanted, everything there was to get. Handsome, brilliant, quick-witted, articulate, forceful, you. We spent hours and hours on the red couch, giggling, The happiness police are going to come and arrest us if we go on this way. Arrest us for our luck.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. We ought to, but we don’t – or at least, we don’t quite as readily. But the more you do, the more quickly you can recognize the feeling when it comes around again, and hopefully you won’t need to stare as long.”

106. “We ought to say a feeling of and, a feeling of if, a feeling of but, and a feeling of by, quite as readily as we say a feeling of blue or a feeling of cold. We ought to, but we don’t – or at least, we don’t quite as readily. But the more you do, the more quickly you can recognize the feeling when it comes around again, and hopefully you won’t need to stare as long.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.”

107. “We struggled to understand how a contract with the so-called secular state could mandate some kind of spiritual ritual.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn’t to say you haven’t changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing.”

108. “As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn’t to say you haven’t changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don’t now. I know we’re still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.”

109. “But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don’t now. I know we’re still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “187. Is it a related form of aggrandizement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory? Losing what one loves is simpler, more common, than that. More precise. One could leave it, too, as it is. – Yet how can I explain, that every time I put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it?”

110. “187. Is it a related form of aggrandizement, to inflate a heartbreak into a sort of allegory? Losing what one loves is simpler, more common, than that. More precise. One could leave it, too, as it is. – Yet how can I explain, that every time I put a pin in the balloon of it, the balloon seems to swell back up as soon as I turn away from it?”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “If there’s one thing homonormativity reveals, it’s the troubling fact that you can be victimized and in no way be radical; it happens very often among homosexuals as with every other oppressed minority.”

111. “If there’s one thing homonormativity reveals, it’s the troubling fact that you can be victimized and in no way be radical; it happens very often among homosexuals as with every other oppressed minority.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “I just don’t feel like you’re trying hard enough,” one friend says to me. How can I tell her that not trying has become the whole point, the whole plan? That is to say, I have been trying to go limp in the face of my heartache, as another friend says he does in the face of his anxiety. Think of it as an act of civil disobedience, he says. Let the police peel you up. I have been trying to place myself in a land of great sunshine, and abandon my will therewith.”

112. “I just don’t feel like you’re trying hard enough,” one friend says to me. How can I tell her that not trying has become the whole point, the whole plan? That is to say, I have been trying to go limp in the face of my heartache, as another friend says he does in the face of his anxiety. Think of it as an act of civil disobedience, he says. Let the police peel you up. I have been trying to place myself in a land of great sunshine, and abandon my will therewith.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “Most of my writing usually feels to me like a bad idea, which makes it hard for me to know which ideas feel bad because they have merit, and which ones feel bad because they don’t.”

113. “Most of my writing usually feels to me like a bad idea, which makes it hard for me to know which ideas feel bad because they have merit, and which ones feel bad because they don’t.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “14. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it.”

114. “14. I have enjoyed telling people that I am writing a book about blue without actually doing it.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.”

115. “Misogyny, when expressed or explored by men, remains a timeless classic.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “As her time grew near, your brother took her in. His family situation was under strain, but at least she had a bed there, her own room. It was almost good enough. But really none of it was good enough, even though it was better than many get. When she began to lose consciousness, your brother had her moved to a local hospice; you flew there in the dead of night, desperate to get there in time, so that she wouldn’t die alone.”

116. “As her time grew near, your brother took her in. His family situation was under strain, but at least she had a bed there, her own room. It was almost good enough. But really none of it was good enough, even though it was better than many get. When she began to lose consciousness, your brother had her moved to a local hospice; you flew there in the dead of night, desperate to get there in time, so that she wouldn’t die alone.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “According to Dionysius, the Divine Darkness appears dark only because it is so dazzlingly bright – a paradox I have attempted to understand by looking directly at the sun and noticing the dark spot that flowers at its center. But as compelling as this paradox, or this experiment, may be, I am not as interested in it as I am the fact that in Christian iconography, this “dazzling darkness” appears with startling regularity as blue.”

117. “According to Dionysius, the Divine Darkness appears dark only because it is so dazzlingly bright – a paradox I have attempted to understand by looking directly at the sun and noticing the dark spot that flowers at its center. But as compelling as this paradox, or this experiment, may be, I am not as interested in it as I am the fact that in Christian iconography, this “dazzling darkness” appears with startling regularity as blue.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “It will not say, ‘Isn’t X beautiful?’ Such demands are murderous to beauty.”

118. “It will not say, ‘Isn’t X beautiful?’ Such demands are murderous to beauty.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “For it isn’t just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It’s happiness that spreads.”

119. “For it isn’t just moments of happiness, which is all I thought we got. It’s happiness that spreads.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “When we take Iggy to the doctor together now, the nurse always says how happy it makes her to see a father helping out with a baby. ‘I’m certainly doing their team a lot of favors’, you mutter.”

120. “When we take Iggy to the doctor together now, the nurse always says how happy it makes her to see a father helping out with a baby. ‘I’m certainly doing their team a lot of favors’, you mutter.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “The joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing. But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don’t know. I know we’re still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.”

121. “The joke of evolution is that it is a teleology without a point, that we, like all animals, are a project that issues in nothing. But is there really such a thing as nothing, as nothingness? I don’t know. I know we’re still here, who knows for how long, ablaze with our care, its ongoing song.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.”

122. “I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part.”

123. “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part.”

— Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson Quote: “So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world’s most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic paradigm that doesn’t even begin to engage art’s most exciting provinces.”

124. “So long as we exalt artists as beautiful liars or as the world’s most profound truth-tellers, we remain locked in a moralistic paradigm that doesn’t even begin to engage art’s most exciting provinces.”

— Maggie Nelson

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