Sheila Heti Quotes

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

I agree to, or rather aspire to, my doom.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

Wherever the storm carries me, I go a willing guest.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

There is nothing you can do about it but sit back and watch.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.

It is good to love the unknown.

I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

The joy of losing consists in this: Where there are no expectations, there is no disappointment.

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

But what is past my help is past my care.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

I'll be happy to go anywhere that will take me, honestly.

I never thought I would see the outside of Chicago.

I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.

It's better to accept destiny.

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.