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Top 15 Nora McInerny Quotes (2025 Update)

Nora McInerny Quote: “And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the Kingdom of Heaven And the name of that river was suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river And the name of that boat was love.”

1. “And I saw the river over which every soul must pass to reach the Kingdom of Heaven And the name of that river was suffering. And I saw the boat which carries souls across the river And the name of that boat was love.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “It feels as if all unexpected life events blow in all at once, like a summer storm that drops rocks of ice on your lawn on an eighty-degree day. That’s true of the hard things: they arrive with an exclamation mark, sudden and declarative.”

2. “It feels as if all unexpected life events blow in all at once, like a summer storm that drops rocks of ice on your lawn on an eighty-degree day. That’s true of the hard things: they arrive with an exclamation mark, sudden and declarative.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “I’m only as good as my next achievement; I allow myself anywhere between five to eight minutes to happiness about any accomplishment before shifting immediately into what’s next, and how I can make it better. We are all exhausting, gaping holes of need trying to fill the void with perfection and progress and the pursuit of more and better, aching for a sheet of gold-stars and a grown-up to tell us that we belong here.”

3. “I’m only as good as my next achievement; I allow myself anywhere between five to eight minutes to happiness about any accomplishment before shifting immediately into what’s next, and how I can make it better. We are all exhausting, gaping holes of need trying to fill the void with perfection and progress and the pursuit of more and better, aching for a sheet of gold-stars and a grown-up to tell us that we belong here.”

— Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny Quote: “That is what I’ve felt like all of these months, like I am groping about in the darkness, waking up in a world I hadn’t expected to occupy. But there is no way through it except through it.”

4. “That is what I’ve felt like all of these months, like I am groping about in the darkness, waking up in a world I hadn’t expected to occupy. But there is no way through it except through it.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “Even if you’re surrounded by people you love, figuring out grief is a solo project.”

5. “Even if you’re surrounded by people you love, figuring out grief is a solo project.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “Grief is a byproduct of love. We don’t grieve what we don’t love.”

6. “Grief is a byproduct of love. We don’t grieve what we don’t love.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “You know what selfies can show you? Yourself. And you are worth looking at. You are worth marveling at.”

7. “You know what selfies can show you? Yourself. And you are worth looking at. You are worth marveling at.”

— Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny Quote: “Ernest Hemingway wrote “the world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places.”

8. “Ernest Hemingway wrote “the world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are stronger in the broken places.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “It’s about facing whatever darkness looms over you: your suffering, your sorrow, your sickness, and still putting one foot in front of the other.”

9. “It’s about facing whatever darkness looms over you: your suffering, your sorrow, your sickness, and still putting one foot in front of the other.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “I wish I could tell my teenage self that loving once makes you better at loving, and better at being loved. That whatever happens with each love, you can carry it all proudly.”

10. “I wish I could tell my teenage self that loving once makes you better at loving, and better at being loved. That whatever happens with each love, you can carry it all proudly.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “Something inside me started to pull me toward people who had also experienced hard things. I lost my taste for fiction and I devoured memoirs, soaking up the experiences of people who lived and felt deeply.”

11. “Something inside me started to pull me toward people who had also experienced hard things. I lost my taste for fiction and I devoured memoirs, soaking up the experiences of people who lived and felt deeply.”

— Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny Quote: “It is completely bonkers that after we’ve had our heart put through a meat grinder, we just gather up the chunks and say, “Well, let’s try again!”

12. “It is completely bonkers that after we’ve had our heart put through a meat grinder, we just gather up the chunks and say, “Well, let’s try again!”

— Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny Quote: “There is no choice we can make that will help us avoid heartache or suffering or loss, in some measure.”

13. “There is no choice we can make that will help us avoid heartache or suffering or loss, in some measure.”

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Nora McInerny Quote: “Yes, we have all been broken before. And yes, we could break all over again. The years will roll on. More joy. More pain. More possibility. More yes. More and.”

14. “Yes, we have all been broken before. And yes, we could break all over again. The years will roll on. More joy. More pain. More possibility. More yes. More and.”

— Nora McInerny

Nora McInerny Quote: “Let’s all stop pretending that selfies are an aberration of the high art we’re creating with our smart phones or that posting a photo of yourself is somehow an interruption of the high-level discourse we are used to sharing on social media. You know what selfies can show you? Yourself. And you are worth looking at. You are worth marveling at.”

15. “Let’s all stop pretending that selfies are an aberration of the high art we’re creating with our smart phones or that posting a photo of yourself is somehow an interruption of the high-level discourse we are used to sharing on social media. You know what selfies can show you? Yourself. And you are worth looking at. You are worth marveling at.”

— Nora McInerny

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