Quotes By Diane Ackerman

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

Success produces success, just as money produces money.

We live on the leash of our senses.

Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.