Famous John Updike Quotes

  • The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die. – John Updike

    The dead teach this great lesson, which we are loathe to learn: we too will die.– John Updike

  • Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life. – John Updike

    Perhaps we meet our heaven at the start and not the end of life.– John Updike

  • From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. – John Updike

    From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few. – John Updike

  • There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals. – John Updike

    There is no such thing as static happiness. Happiness is a mixed thing, a thing compounded of sacrifices, and losses, and betrayals.– John Updike

  • I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it. – John Updike

    I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it.– John Updike

  • But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark. – John Updike

    But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.– John Updike

  • Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. – John Updike

    Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston.– John Updike

  • Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. – John Updike

    Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.– John Updike

  • One does not go to Moscow to get fat. – John Updike

    One does not go to Moscow to get fat.– John Updike

  • Growth is betrayal. – John Updike

    Growth is betrayal.– John Updike