Joyce Carol Oates Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Confused, Slow Motion

  Joyce Carol Oates (2001). “We Were the Mulvaneys”, p.485, Penguin

• Boxing is about being hit rather more than it is about hitting, just as it is about feeling pain, if not devastating psychological paralysis, more than it is about winning.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Winning, Boxing

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.25, Harper Collins

• When I wrote 'We Were The Mulvaneys,' I was just old enough to look back upon my own family life and the lies of certain individuals close to me, with the detachment of time. I wanted to tell the truth about secrets: How much pain they give, yet how much relief, even happiness we may feel when at last the motive for secrecy has passed.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Pain, Lying, Giving

• the art of reading hardly differs from the art of writing, in that its most intense pleasures and pains must remains private, and cannot be communicated to others.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Pain, Reading

  Joyce Carol Oates (1983). “The profane art: essays and reviews”, Dutton Adult

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