Elizabeth Gilbert

Quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

Elizabeth Gilbert

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.

Elizabeth Gilbert

To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.

Elizabeth Gilbert

It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I met an old lady once, almost a hundred years old, and she told me, 'There are only two questions that human beings have ever fought over, all through history. How much do you love me? And Who's in charge?

Elizabeth Gilbert