Top 180 Michael Cunningham Quotes (2024 Update)
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Michael Cunningham Quote: “What you are, more than anything, is alive.”

151. “What you are, more than anything, is alive.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I’ve always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.”

152. “I’ve always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.”

153. “It’s the country that would have him, since he lacked the necessary papers for more promising places.”

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Michael Cunningham Quote: “He demands that his mother pick him up so he can see the soldiers better; so he will be more visible to them. All this enters the bridge, resounds through its wood and stone, and enters Virginia’s body. Her face, pressed sideways to the piling, absorbs it all: the truck and the soldiers, the mother and the child.”

154. “He demands that his mother pick him up so he can see the soldiers better; so he will be more visible to them. All this enters the bridge, resounds through its wood and stone, and enters Virginia’s body. Her face, pressed sideways to the piling, absorbs it all: the truck and the soldiers, the mother and the child.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “You don’t have to matter any more than you do right now.”

155. “You don’t have to matter any more than you do right now.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.”

156. “This, Barrett Meeks, is your work. You witness, and compile. You persevere.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I think pretty much everybody who says he needs money really and truly needs money.”

157. “I think pretty much everybody who says he needs money really and truly needs money.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “Not all people were meant to be lovers.”

158. “Not all people were meant to be lovers.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “There is so little love in the world.”

159. “There is so little love in the world.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “She’d never been religious. She hadn’t allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.”

160. “She’d never been religious. She hadn’t allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “All my life I could do anything. I could do anything, really. Except the one thing I wanted.”

161. “All my life I could do anything. I could do anything, really. Except the one thing I wanted.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I’ve felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn’t that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It’s a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn’t it funny that, even now, it’s difficult to say the word ‘death’?”

162. “I’ve felt it for some time now, closing around me like the jaws of a gigantic flower. Isn’t that a peculiar analogy? It feels that way, though. It has a certain vegetable inevitability. Think of the Venus flytrap. Think of kudzu choking a forest. It’s a sort of juicy, green, thriving process. Toward, well, you know. The green silence. Isn’t it funny that, even now, it’s difficult to say the word ‘death’?”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “This is one of the most singular experiences, waking on what feels like a good day, preparing to work but not yet actually embarked. At this moment there are infinite possibilities, whole hours ahead.”

163. “This is one of the most singular experiences, waking on what feels like a good day, preparing to work but not yet actually embarked. At this moment there are infinite possibilities, whole hours ahead.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I admit it – there was a streak of sadism in my lusts. There was the taint of vanity. I choose ordinary men who would not refuse; who would feel lucky to have me. I did not thrill to the sight of their flesh – which was either bulky or scrawny but always abashed and grateful – so much as I did to the fact of their capture.”

164. “I admit it – there was a streak of sadism in my lusts. There was the taint of vanity. I choose ordinary men who would not refuse; who would feel lucky to have me. I did not thrill to the sight of their flesh – which was either bulky or scrawny but always abashed and grateful – so much as I did to the fact of their capture.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “He hadn’t remotely imagined that one morning he’d check his text messages and find love to have been lost, with approximately the degree of remorse one would feel over the loss of a pair of sunglasses.”

165. “He hadn’t remotely imagined that one morning he’d check his text messages and find love to have been lost, with approximately the degree of remorse one would feel over the loss of a pair of sunglasses.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I’ve stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.”

166. “I’ve stayed alive for you. But now you have to let me go.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “Here they are, this once-prosperous couple, shocked, altered, dragged before the seat of the conqueror who’d promised it was only the servants and petty thieves who’d suffer.”

167. “Here they are, this once-prosperous couple, shocked, altered, dragged before the seat of the conqueror who’d promised it was only the servants and petty thieves who’d suffer.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “This moment may come to us all, at some point in our eventutal move from health into sickness. We abandon our old obligation to consider the needs of others, and give ourselves up to their care. There is a shift in status. We become citizens of a new realm, and although we retain the best and worst of our former selves we are no longer bodily in command of our fates.”

168. “This moment may come to us all, at some point in our eventutal move from health into sickness. We abandon our old obligation to consider the needs of others, and give ourselves up to their care. There is a shift in status. We become citizens of a new realm, and although we retain the best and worst of our former selves we are no longer bodily in command of our fates.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I don’t know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.”

169. “I don’t know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “She is better, she is safer, if she rests in Richmond; if she does not speak too much, write too much, feel too much; if she does not travel impetuously to London and walk through its streets; and yet she is dying this way, she is gently dying on a bed of roses.”

170. “She is better, she is safer, if she rests in Richmond; if she does not speak too much, write too much, feel too much; if she does not travel impetuously to London and walk through its streets; and yet she is dying this way, she is gently dying on a bed of roses.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “She wants to be loved. She wants to be a competent mother reading calmly to her child; she wants to be a wife who sets a perfect table. She does not want, not at all, to be the strange woman, the pathetic creature, full of quirks and rages, solitary, sulking, tolerated but not loved.”

171. “She wants to be loved. She wants to be a competent mother reading calmly to her child; she wants to be a wife who sets a perfect table. She does not want, not at all, to be the strange woman, the pathetic creature, full of quirks and rages, solitary, sulking, tolerated but not loved.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “Yes, she thinks, this probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it – that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.”

172. “Yes, she thinks, this probably how it must feel to be a ghost. It’s a little like reading, isn’t it – that same sensation of knowing people, settings, situations, without playing any particular part beyond that of the willing observer.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “She will write and write. She will finish this book, then write another. She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”

173. “She will write and write. She will finish this book, then write another. She will remain sane and she will live as she was meant to live, richly and deeply, among others of her kind, in full possession and command of her gifts.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.”

174. “That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “She is not given to fawning over celebrities, no more than most people, but can’t help being drawn to the aura of fame – and more than fame, actual immortality – implied by the presence of a movie star in a trailer.”

175. “She is not given to fawning over celebrities, no more than most people, but can’t help being drawn to the aura of fame – and more than fame, actual immortality – implied by the presence of a movie star in a trailer.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “Most people think they’re not most people.”

176. “Most people think they’re not most people.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “His father had a merciless eye that could find one bad straw in ten bales of good intentions.”

177. “His father had a merciless eye that could find one bad straw in ten bales of good intentions.”

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Michael Cunningham Quote: “For years, for most of my recollected life, I’d walked carefully over a subterranean well of boredom and hopelessness that lay just beneath the thin outer layer of my imagination. If I’d stood still too long, if I’d given in to repose, I’d have fallen through. So I’d made things, gone to clubs and movies. I’d kept changing my hair.”

178. “For years, for most of my recollected life, I’d walked carefully over a subterranean well of boredom and hopelessness that lay just beneath the thin outer layer of my imagination. If I’d stood still too long, if I’d given in to repose, I’d have fallen through. So I’d made things, gone to clubs and movies. I’d kept changing my hair.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “I know you. I’ve seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.”

179. “I know you. I’ve seen it. And, knowing all, I release you.”

— Michael Cunningham

Michael Cunningham Quote: “It’s remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow...”

180. “It’s remarkable, being alive. Being, once again, someone walking through a dust of blowing snow...”

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