Jeanette Winterson Quotes

Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Intimacy is healing.

Sometimes, when we're feeling challenged in life, we feel a pull to isolate, and for me part of the joy of being a wife, a mother, and in a cast of friends is allowing myself to be in spaces of love. So being open to that love.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

I think what you learn from relationships is that they are unpredictable.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

You can give into a relationship and warmth and the arms of another person.

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.

We find rest in those we love, and we provide a resting place in ourselves for those who love us.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Your sense of guilt will linger. It will always be part of you. but sharing it, allowing people to love you anyway, will do you the world of good. Secrets need an outlet if they are not to fester and become an unbearable burden.

You can't love somebody into a state of mental health. A lot of people get into serious relationships thinking they're going to heal someone with their love and attention, but it doesn't usually work out that way.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?

Someone with whom we have a lifetime's worth of lessons to learn is someone whose presence in our lives forces us to grow...those who consciously or unconsciously challenge our fearful positions. They show us our walls. Our walls are our wounds--the places where we feel we can't love any more, can't connect any more deeply, can't forgive past a certain point. We are in each other's lives in order to help us see where we most need healing, and in order to help us heal.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.

In life, when stuff happens the instinct is to close off your heart. By leaving your heart open, it leaves room for someone else to come in.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

Everybody needs somebody.