Famous Quotes

"Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation."

"Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to."

"You don't win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does."

"The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply."

"This autumn-why am I growing old?bird disappearing among clouds."

"It’s a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal."

"All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose."

"having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor."

"The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark."

"Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later and knowing why doesn’t matter any more."

"Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter"

"There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."

"It’s too bad if a heart lacks fire,and is deprived of the light of a heart ablaze.The day on which you arewithout passionate loveis the most wasted day of your life."

"Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"Life is long, and sometimes cruel. Sometimes victims are needed. Someone has to take on that role. And human bodies are fragile, easily damaged. Cut them, and they bleed."

"The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do."

"Find a voice in a whisper."

"Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual."

"Let us work without reasoning,' said Martin; 'it is the only way to make life endurable."

"Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places."

"Work harder on yourself than you do on your job."