500 quotes found
“[Y]ou are here to learn something. Dont try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.”
“Bury me where I die.”
“Freedom is not to defy, it is to co-exist. It is a challenge for the imagination”
“Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.”
“Who will read these poems when the people are gone?”
“-I haven't been writing for years. I lost faith. it's not for me. Too many levels.-What levels?-All those levels of existence. us down here, and up there, high above us. the ceiling of the universe...”
“Thats what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually theyre gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with.”
“But here's the most incredible thing about it: the philosopher isn't proposing that as a concept; he's simply articulating what humans believe about themselves. That first they thing and therefore ...”
“I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I dont want to be just another patient. I wanted to be special. I want to be something, anythin...”
“No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a li...”
“We perceive the world through the rear window of life, observe all the puzzles and little pieces of our existence and assemble them in a comprehensive pattern. This allows us to reassess and evalua...”
“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”
“Spirituality is the strength of existence.”
“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, its your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”
“Maybe we all just exist, all versions of us exist at times, and we have to figure out a way to get to each of them, to find each one and tell that version that it's okay, that it's all justthe way ...”
“My existence is enough gift of grace.”
“The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everythingand this is the most cruel lawcontinually gets worse.”
“Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out.”
“Remember that every day you quicken into motion waves that undulate on to the very confines of existence; you stir up waves that break upon the shores of eternity itself. And it is of much importan...”
“One day I decided that existing simply did not work for me, and that was when I began to live.”
