It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.

Quote by Harold Brodkey

Topics: Harold Brodkey Quotes

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and...

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and...

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial...

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial...

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York....

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York....

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the...

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the...

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this...

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this...

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be...

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be...

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because,...

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because,...

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and,...

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and,...

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my...

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my...

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small,...

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small,...

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the...

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the...

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to...

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to...

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly...

Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly...

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a...

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a...

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well,...

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well,...