Joyce Carol Oates Quotes about Life

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The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Memorable, Unrequited Love

Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton

"Because there has been no one to stop me" has been one of the principles of my life.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Principles, Has Beens

I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it's impossible not to see that your opponent is you.... Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Boxing, Goes On

Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “On Boxing”, p.4, Harper Collins