222 quotes found
“Dad is and always will be my living, breathing superhero.”
“No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.”
“It is not only the living who are killed in war.”
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
“Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live.”
“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,...”
“Don’t 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.”
“It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self—never ...”
“When I get frustrated that there aren't enough hours in a day, that I can't do enough or be enough or experience everything I want to just exactly right now, my mom reminds me in her gentle way tha...”
“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I can’t settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world won’t let me. So what choice do I have but...”
“I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.”
“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
“Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. So much of all this, so much of all living was patience and thinking.”
“If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you've made.”
“You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.”
“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”
“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”
“Though under earth, and throneless now I beYet while I lived all earth was under me.”
“Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself”
