Anita Brookner – 6 Quotes

6 Quotes by Anita Brookner

Life… is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won’t be got rid of.

– Anita Brookner

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

– Anita Brookner

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

– Anita Brookner

Existentialism is about being a saint without God being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

– Anita Brookner

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

– Anita Brookner

Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.

– Anita Brookner