Famous Sonya Hartnett Quotes

  • Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground. – Sonya Hartnett

    Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground.– Sonya Hartnett

  • Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair. – Sonya Hartnett

    Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that’s sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.– Sonya Hartnett

  • I would always be lonely, but no more alone. – Sonya Hartnett

    I would always be lonely, but no more alone.– Sonya Hartnett

  • I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. – Sonya Hartnett

    I suppose that’s what happens when you make other people’s lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.– Sonya Hartnett

  • But what she feels is sometimes hard to express…Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without. – Sonya Hartnett

    But what she feels is sometimes hard to express…Much of what is best in her is warped on the voyage from within to without.– Sonya Hartnett

  • I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. – Sonya Hartnett

    I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.– Sonya Hartnett

  • I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink. – Sonya Hartnett

    I fail to see how turning the subject over like compost can do anything except raise its stink.– Sonya Hartnett

  • I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it. – Sonya Hartnett

    I am dying: it’s a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.– Sonya Hartnett