222 quotes found
“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”
“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”
“The living sinners on deadly ground.”
“O, to take what we love inside,to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade,not only the sugar, but the days, to holdthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite intothe rou...”
“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.”
“Living is painful. Without pain, reality would escape us and the lessons the world has for us will go untaught.”
“Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten,...”
“The truth is what you live through while you're looking for the truth.”
“Ye are better than all the balladsThat ever were sung or said;For ye are living poems,And all the rest are dead.”
“Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live.”
“How nice-to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I cant settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world wont let me. So what choice do I have but t...”
“Dont go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.”
“To breathe is to live, but to write unimpeded is to breathe eternal.”
“I always thought it was disgusting and ugly, how the weak live their lives depending on each other shamefully licking each other's wounds. A way of life that no one could truly want. I was certain ...”
“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun. ”
“What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.”
“A good motto to live by: 'Always try not to get killed.”
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
