About Life Quotes
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.
You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That’s the reality of getting old, and I guess that’s really the crux of the matter. I’m not ready to be old yet.
Stress comes from the way you relate to events or situations.
There's nothing like your mother's sympathetic voice to make you want to burst into tears.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.
When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.
When a problem threatens to engulf you, there's nothing like irrelevant detail to keep your head above water.
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.
The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I had no such ambition. There was nothing I wanted to be.
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases.
A novelist has to know enough about a subject to fool the passenger next to him on an airplane.
So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.
A key to a long, productive writing life is finding ways to support that life, emotionally and existentially.
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.
If you make the opportunity. you'll be the first in the position to take advantage of it.
There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.
There is always the possibility of a better life with every change that we face, but sometimes we have to look hard for it.
... Life can be savored only if you look to the future and leave vengeance to the gods
Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Am like a Fire Fly, Charged to Execute my Flames to Light this World up, therefore, you have to Kill me to get out my Flame.
Beauty is transformed over time, and not without destruction.
When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.
I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.
I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?
Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.
What i literally cannot describe is the hollowness in my lungs when i am out of her presence. It is as if i were dying from the want of her.
The words marriage and divorce were always used together, like they went hand in hand together.
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
We girls aren't supposed to fall for the good boys.We are supposed to like a bit of grit in our oyster.That's how you get a pearl, after all.
