Cheryl Strayed Quotes

Her cry was the saddest sound of orgasm that I had ever heard.

I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.

I have loved fiercely in my life - a few times.

Do you have any idea how much I've loved you?

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

…deep-diving love, a love that excavates you. It’s something you have to have before you die in order to have lived.

How lucky we are that we love each other so much that we burst into three pieces.

What is commonly honored with the name of Friendship is no very profound or powerful instinct. Men do not, after all, love their Friends greatly. I do not often see the farmers made seers and wise to the verge of insanity by their Friendship for one another. They are not often transfigured and translated by love in each other's presence. I do not observe them purified, refined, and elevated by the love of a man.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

There is so much a man can tell you,So much he can say.You remain, my power, my pleasure, my pain

In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.

The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.

To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

I just sat all night looking at him, saying, 'Wow, it's incredible.' When Yoko woke up, I told her, 'He's fine,' and we cried.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

I didn't know love felt like this, like turning into brightness.

On film Vanilla Sky: You're going to get the full experience of what love is.

We are the most brutal with the people we love the most.

I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived.

You think you know how much you can love another person, and then you have a child and you realize you didn't know. It's infinitely rewarding.

How many times have I wondered if it is really possible to forge links with a mass of people when one has never had strong feelings for anyone, not even one's own parents: if it is possible to have a collectivity when one has not been deeply loved oneself by individual human creatures. Hasn't this had some effect on my life as a militant--has it not tended to make me sterile and reduce my quality as a revolutionary by making everything a matter of pure intellect, of pure mathematical calculation?

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.