Anna Maxted Quotes

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

Anna Maxted

• Common
• Look Back
• Traumas

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

Anna Maxted

• Road
• Looking
• Forward

We sit in silence, drinking hot chocolate and contemplating the act that death is a monstrous affront to the living and shouldn't be allowed.

Anna Maxted

• Death
• Contemplating
• Affront

We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.

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• Wind
• Talent
• Braggarts

When you're right there in the crisi, you'll do anything to make yourself feel better, distract yourself from the misery, deny reality, not matter how stupid.

Anna Maxted

• Reality
• Feel
• Crisis

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Anna Maxted

• Rejection
• Humiliation
• Hint

Grief is a private, internal thing. No one can say their pain is worse than yours because they don't know. So maybe it's not good to compare. Maybe it's better to talk to people who know you.

Anna Maxted

• Grief
• Compare
• Private

People who don't get excited about receiving gifts are tired of life.

Anna Maxted

• Life
• Tired
• Gifts

You can hate a person with your whole body, but love is a stubborn thing, it clings on in your heart.

Anna Maxted

• Heart
• Love
• Hate

If you're happy inside you don't have to convince everyone else.

Anna Maxted

• Happy
• Inside
• Convince