A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: life happiness hell Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The attitude that I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical. —John Cage More about this quote Tags: wonder life joy interesting celebration noticing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
At the end of his life, Ezra Pound observed to a friend: "Nothing really matters, does it?" Today I understand this. At the end, or close to the end, or closer to the end than the beginning, the value of what we once thought mattered is lost to us. Even survival, once so important, money, food, family, country, accomplishment, recognition, fame, even: Pound was right. He once said to Allen Ginsberg: "At seventy I realized that instead of being a lunatic, I was a moron." —Doris Grumbach More about this quote Tags: life survival important Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. —D. H. Lawrence More about this quote Tags: love life ideas Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you’re watching someone die. —Melina Marchetta in On the Jellicoe Road More about this quote Tags: life death Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it’s in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile. —Nicholas Sparks in The Last Song More about this quote Tags: life memory mystery emotion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is about experience. You can’t hold on to everything. —Sarah Addison Allen in Garden Spells More about this quote Tags: life memory experience clinging Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Everything has been figured out, except how to live. —Jean-Paul Sartre More about this quote Tags: life knowledge Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. —Charlotte Bronte More about this quote Tags: life hatred envy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life can be about taking chances and finding really great things and yes, failing sometimes. Or it can be about wondering what if because you never dared to try. —Lauren Dane in Giving Chase More about this quote Tags: life risk failure chances trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. —Steven Weinberg More about this quote Tags: humanity life universe tragedy grace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People should not judge failed love affairs as failed experiences but as part of the growth process. Something does not have to end well for it to have been one of the most valuable experiences of a lifetime. —Ethel Person More about this quote Tags: life experience growth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. —Leo Buscaglia More about this quote Tags: love life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the road is easy, you’re likely going the wrong way. —Terry Goodkind in The Sword of Truth More about this quote Tags: life ease Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. . . . The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul. —Carl Jung More about this quote Tags: humanity life darkness brutality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email