Skip to content

What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul? (p182)

— Louise Erdrich The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

Another quote →

Topics

Dreams

More quotes by Louise Erdrich

Getting blown up happened in an instant; getting put together took the rest of your life.

LaRose (2016)

Sorrow eats time. Be patient. Time eats sorrow.

LaRose (2016)

When every inch of the world is known, sleep may be the only wilderness that we have left. (p190)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

Bits of narrative always cling to a title, like magnetism.

with The Paris Review (2010)

Each life is one short word slowly uttered. (p191)

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year (1996)

All Louise Erdrich quotes →

You may also like

Political leaders are never leaders. For leaders we have to look to the Awakeners! Lao Tse, Buddha, Socrates, Jesus, Milarepa, Gurdjiev, Krishnamurti.

Henry Miller My Bike & Other Friends (1977)

Utu, shepherd of the land, father of the black-headed, when you go to sleep, the people go to sleep with you; youth Utu, when you rise, the people rise with you.

Lugalbanda

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

L. Frank Baum Introduction to The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)

Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification.

Simone Weil

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Louise Erdrich (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.