43 The Bridges of Madison County Quotes by Robert James Waller

Robert James Waller’s best-selling romance novel “The Bridges of Madison County” depicts the tale of an Italian-American World War II war bride living on a farm in 1960s Madison County, Iowa.

Let’s discover some of the most famous quotes from The Bridges of Madison Country novel.

The Bridges of Madison County Quotes by Robert James Waller

“I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I gave my life to my family, I wish to give Robert what is left of me.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“First you must have the images, then come the words.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“This kind of certainty comes but once in a lifetime.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“The market kills more artistic passion than anything else.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Something I’ve never been able to adapt to, to understand, is how they can lavish such love and care on the animals and then see them sold for slaughter.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

Quotes from The Bridges of Madison County

“He was an animal. A graceful, hard, male animal who did nothing overtly to dominate her yet dominated her completely, in the exact way she wanted that to happen at this moment.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I sometimes have the feeling you’ve been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you’ve dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.” ― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

“Once a person knows a kiss and a kind word, you can’t blame him for never wanting to live without them again.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“You never in your life think that love like this can happen to you.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“My contention is that male hormones are the ultimate cause of trouble on this planet. It was one thing to dominate another tribe or another warrior. It’s quite another to have missiles.” ~ Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County

“The heart never forgets, never gives up, the territory marked off for those who came before.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we’re in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it’s possible to be in love.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

Best Bridges of Madison County Quotes

“Anyone who can feel that way about a woman is worth lovin himself.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“To covered bridges in the late afternoon, or, better yet, on warm red mornings.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“In a way, women were asking for men to be poets and driving, passionate lovers at the same time.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I made that horn sound like it never had before; I made it cry for all the miles and years that separated them.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it’s not a bad song.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Talisman, Talisman, show me your secrets,
Helmsman, Helmsman, turn me for home.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.” ~ Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County.

“Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity’s the real challenge.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

Top Bridges of Madison County Quotes

“They were good friends, though they would never understand what lay inside of her, would not understand even if she told them.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“She wore ribbons in her black hair and clung to her dreams.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I don’t want to need you, ’cause I can’t have you.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“It’s clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable – it could not have been any other way – a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

Great The Bridges of Madison County Quotes

“Yet in a world where personal commitment in all of its forms seems to be shattering and love has become a matter of convenience, they both felt this remarkable tale was worth the telling.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn’t work out but I’m glad I had them.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“So here I am walking around with another person inside of me. Though I think I put it better the day we parted when I said there is a third person we have created from the two of us. And I am stalked now by that other entity.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I just stand here, about twilight, makin’ that ol’ horn weep, and I play that tune for a man named Robert Kincaid and a woman he called Francesca.” ~ Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County.

“Francesca was feeling good feelings, old feelings, poetry and music feelings.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“He liked words and images. “Blue” was one of his favorite words. He liked the feeling it made on his lips and tongue when he said it.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Eventually, computers and robots will run things. Humans will manage those machines, but that doesn’t require courage or strength, or any characteristics like those. In fact, men are outliving their usefulness.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“And, man he cried when he talked. He cried big tears, the kind it takes an old man to cry, the kind it takes a saxophone to play.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“I’ll never say it another time, to anyone, and I ask you to remember it: In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.” ~ Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County.

“God or the universe or whatever one chooses to label the great systems of balance and order does not recognize Earth-time. To the universe, four days is no different than four billion light years. I try to keep that in mind.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Gypsies make difficult friends for ordinary people, and he was seething of a gypsy.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

“Custom brings predictability, and predictability carries its own comforts.” ~ Robert James Waller (The Bridges of Madison County).

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