More quotations tagged with “clinging”
And this is the simple truth—that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself, to be on firm ground. Instinctively, as do the shipwrecked, he will look around for something to which to cling, and that tragic, ruthless glance, absolutely sincere, because it is a question of his salvation, will cause him to bring order into the chaos of his life. These are the only genuine ideas; the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.
—Soren Kierkegaard
Some things are hard to let go of.
—Veronica Roth in Allegiant
Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything.
—Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells