222 quotes found
“The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a ...”
“It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead”
“Woe unto you when all men speak well of you.”
“You cut yourself off from all sorts of experience because you tell yourself you re not 'that sort of person”
“The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly...”
“To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.”
“To-day I shall be strong,No more shall yield to wrong,Shall squander life no more;Days lost, I know not how,I shall retrieve them now;Now I shall keep the vowI never kept before.”
“Thinking of things" is but a special way of dealing with them; but, as is obvious, it is a secondary manner of doing so and thus presupposes another [i.e., the primordial one]. The fundamental erro...”
“I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”
“What’s worth living for? what’s worth dying for? what’s completely foolish to pursue?”
“If it wasn’t possible to reinvent the past in such a way as to make it conform to the present’s cheerful view of the way things ought to have been, why bother living?”
“I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!”"We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)”
“I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
“There’s plenty of room for strangeness, mystery, originality, wildness, etc. in poems that also invite the reader into the human and alive center about which the poem circles.”
“Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain, hope played like a playing card upon another hope, a wish for kindness and mercies to emerge like kings and que...”
“But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.”
“Staying alive was what we did to pass the time.”
“[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]”
“Do you want to live in a world where things are possible or one where they aren't?”
“Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my tr...”
