Top 15 Sue Miller Quotes (2024 Update)

Sue Miller Quote: “Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection – in memory – that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”

1. “Loss brings pain. Yes. But pain triggers memory. And memory is a kind of new birth, within each of us. And it is that new birth after long pain, that resurrection – in memory – that, to our surprise, perhaps, comforts us.”

Sue Miller Quote: “There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion – a false hope.”

2. “There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion – a false hope.”

Sue Miller Quote: “Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.”

3. “Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.”

Sue Miller Quote: “It seems we need someone to know us as we are – with all we have done – and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”

4. “It seems we need someone to know us as we are – with all we have done – and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone’s sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.”

Sue Miller Quote: “If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you’ll get one big toe’s worth of life change.”

5. “If you just stick your big toe in the water when it comes to helping someone else, you’ll get one big toe’s worth of life change.”

Sue Miller Quote: “But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory’s first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”

6. “But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory’s first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift.”

Sue Miller Quote: “My sister and I were the ones in the family who had seen this as necessary; neither of my brothers felt there was a problem with Dad. And in general when I’d expressed my concern for him, she was the one of my siblings who responded. She and I had also been the ones who sorted through and distributed mother’s possessions after she had died.”

7. “My sister and I were the ones in the family who had seen this as necessary; neither of my brothers felt there was a problem with Dad. And in general when I’d expressed my concern for him, she was the one of my siblings who responded. She and I had also been the ones who sorted through and distributed mother’s possessions after she had died.”

Sue Miller Quote: “There were disappointments. Things you couldn’t know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn’t wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.”

8. “There were disappointments. Things you couldn’t know you had wanted, or even things you were quite certain you hadn’t wanted, but still, as you discovered, missed some aspect of.”

Sue Miller Quote: “We didn’t know what would happen next: that was our great gift. The gift of youth. The thing we miss, it seems to me, no matter what we’ve made of our lives, as we get older. When we do know what will happen next. And next and next, and then last.”

9. “We didn’t know what would happen next: that was our great gift. The gift of youth. The thing we miss, it seems to me, no matter what we’ve made of our lives, as we get older. When we do know what will happen next. And next and next, and then last.”

Sue Miller Quote: “People think they know what you’re feeling. What you must be feeling. And because it’s easier not to expose yourself, what you’re truly feeling, you don’t disabuse them. You go through the motions for them.”

10. “People think they know what you’re feeling. What you must be feeling. And because it’s easier not to expose yourself, what you’re truly feeling, you don’t disabuse them. You go through the motions for them.”

Sue Miller Quote: “Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard – the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.”

11. “Now he turned the radio on to the news. As we did our separate chores, we listened and commented idly to each other on what we heard – the politics, the plane crashes and crimes, the large disasters of the day, which we all use to keep the smaller, more long-term sorrows at bay.”

Sue Miller Quote: “Sam felt more and more that there was no room for him to be who he really was with Claire.”

12. “Sam felt more and more that there was no room for him to be who he really was with Claire.”

Sue Miller Quote: “She guarded herself against it, she supposed, the way she guarded herself against everything difficult or painful – by being loving, by being solicitous.”

13. “She guarded herself against it, she supposed, the way she guarded herself against everything difficult or painful – by being loving, by being solicitous.”

Sue Miller Quote: “You might have thought I’d worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn’t. I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. That makes you unkind. When I described myself as I was at that time to Daniel, I often said to him, “You wouldn’t have liked me then.”

14. “You might have thought I’d worry about him, about causing him pain or at least embarrassment. I simply didn’t. I felt the kind of desperation, I think, that cancels the possibility of empathy. That makes you unkind. When I described myself as I was at that time to Daniel, I often said to him, “You wouldn’t have liked me then.”

Sue Miller Quote: “I dreamed of my grandparents living there as though they always had with their habits, their rituals, their ways of speaking. With the illusory sense I had as a girl, when my own world was so fragile, that they always would be there. That they would always welcome me and care for me. That they were a place I could always go. A homeland.”

15. “I dreamed of my grandparents living there as though they always had with their habits, their rituals, their ways of speaking. With the illusory sense I had as a girl, when my own world was so fragile, that they always would be there. That they would always welcome me and care for me. That they were a place I could always go. A homeland.”

Sue Miller Quote: “He’d taught her something tonight. Taught her almost painlessly. Almost. She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with. She felt small, and foolish, exposed.”

16. “He’d taught her something tonight. Taught her almost painlessly. Almost. She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with. She felt small, and foolish, exposed.”

Sue Miller Quote: “Love isn’t just what two people have together, it’s what two people make together, so of course, it’s never the same.”

17. “Love isn’t just what two people have together, it’s what two people make together, so of course, it’s never the same.”

Sue Miller Quote: “She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with.”

18. “She’d thought she was memorable. How clear it was that she was not. It wasn’t a quality you possessed, she thought now. It was a quality other people endowed you with.”

Sue Miller Quote: “She’s thinking, it seems, of the course of her life; she’s wondering, perhaps, if her story makes sense, if it means anything, or amounts to anything.”

19. “She’s thinking, it seems, of the course of her life; she’s wondering, perhaps, if her story makes sense, if it means anything, or amounts to anything.”

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