Jim Harrison Love Quotes

#1. It takes a long time for a father to drive the love out of a child.

Jim Harrison

#2. What each of us believes in is up to us, but life is impossible without believing in something.

Kentetsu Takamori

#3. We Americans are trained to think big, talk big, act big, love big, admire bigness but then the essential mystery is in the small.

Jim Harrison

#4. Isabel saw all their lives becoming history in units of days and nights so fatally private there was no one left for her to love.

Jim Harrison

#5. I had let my digust with teaching ruin my love of literature.

Jim Harrison

#6. Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey.

Bill Gates

#7. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.

Greta Salpeter

#8. How wonderful it was to love something without the compromise of language.

Jim Harrison

#9. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Rumi

#10. I don't want to get married or run away. I want my free will. I just want to love someone and not get fucked over.

Jim Harrison

#11. It takes a lot of wanting to get out of a place like this, though. It takes wanting so bad it's all you care about, all you dream about, all you breathe. Some days I think it takes more wanting that I've got.

Cath Crowley

#12. I'm not talking about the place filled with flames. I mean the hell the world is when cruelty doesn't have a reason. When suffering is unrelenting and unrelieved by love.

Lisa Tucker

#13. I made that test my bitch.

Ned Vizzini

#14. If you added it up, without her there was nothing
but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.
(from the novella, Revenge)

Jim Harrison

#15. Some knowledge is too heavy ... you cannot bear it ... your Father will carry it until you are able.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. (from: Age Sixty-nine)
There is this circle I walk
that I have learned to love.
I hope one day to be a spiral
but to the birds I'm a circle.

Jim Harrison

#17. I like grit, I like love and death, I'm tired of irony.

Jim Harrison

#18. Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone
rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

Jim Harrison

#19. any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By

Julian Stockwin