Jeffrey Eugenides Quotes

Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.

Children change you. They really do.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

The thing about Duran... that gives you the ability to bring all that opportunity back into your life.

They say marriage will change you but it didn't change me. Being in love changed me.

There were two paths I was on: pre- and post-meeting my wife. I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't have headshots until I met her.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?

After love, no one is what they were before.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

How can one change one's entire life and build a new one on one moment of love? And yet, that's what you make me want to close my eyes and do.

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

the force of love will change your life so fast that you will scarcely believe it!

Pain does two things: It teaches you, tells you that you're alive. Then it passes away and leaves you changed. It leaves you wiser, sometimes. Sometimes it leaves you stronger. Either way, pain leaves its mark, and everything important that will ever happen to you in life is going to involve it in one degree or another.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

I was heading in a self destructive direction. My priority wasn't together, wasn't in order. So me getting locked up was actually a blessing for me. It helped for me to see the light. Once you get the rug snatched from under you - I had my career and family snatched from me, and I was forced to just sit there in that box for three years and think about what I did and how selfish I was, it made me really see things with new eyes, like, hold up, why was I doing that? What the hell was I thinking about? I gotta change. Something's got to give. I can't ever come back in this place again.

Only love makes fruitful the soul.

It's pain that changes our lives.

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore.

I had a stroke in 1985... I called it a "stroke of luck." I said, "Life is like a train trip. You're looking out the window and everything is whipping past and you're not really seeing anything, and you need to get off the train and walk around a bit."

There comes a time in your life where you're called to not only reinvent yourself but to rebuild your spirit. It's so relevant today.

Write about this man who, drop by drop, squeezes the slave's blood out of himself until he wakes one day to find the blood of a real human being--not a slave's--coursing through his veins.

I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over.

In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.