Famous Quotes

"It's impossible to go through life unscathed. Nor should you want to. By the hurts we accumulate, we measure both our follies and our accomplishments."

"Anything that you learn becomes your wealth, a wealth that cannot be taken away from you; whether you learn it in a building called school or in the school of life. To learn something new is a timeless pleasure and a valuable treasure. And not all things that you learn are taught to you, but many things that you learn you realize you have taught yourself."

"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

"A life isn't measured in hours and minutes. It's the quality, not the length."

"I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that"

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

"He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."

"Don't set your goals by what other people deem important."

"Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am."

"I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting strawberry runners in the sun, a glass of cool sweet milk, and a shallow dish of blueberries bathed in cream. When one is so tired at the end of a day one must sleep, and at the next dawn there are more strawberry runners to set, and so one goes on living, near the earth. At times like this I'd call myself a fool to ask for more..."

"The path to success is to take massive, determined action."

"I can chase you, and I can catch you,but there is nothing I can do to make you mine."

"One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her."

"Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life."

"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."

"Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing."

"For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances have been against me, I was worthy to be something much better than I have been. I admit I have never had a great love or a great friendship; but that is because I never met a man or a woman who were worthy of it; if I have not written any very good books, it is because I had not the leisure to do so; or, if I have had no children to whom I could devote myself it is because I did not find the man I could have lived with. So there remains within me a wide range of abilities, inclinations and potentialities, unused but perfectly viable, which endow me with a worthiness that could never be inferred from the mere history of my actions.” But in reality and for the existentialist, there is no love apart from the deeds of love; no potentiality of love other than that which is manifested in loving; there is no genius other than that which is expressed in works of art."

"Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle."

"I need to stop fantasizing about running away to some other life and start figuring out the one I have."

"To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or, at least, the illusion of freedom) to get beyond ourselves, whether with telescopes and microscopes and our ever-burgeoning technology, or in states of mind that allow us to travel to other worlds, to rise above our immediate surroundings.We may seek, too, a relaxing of inhibitions that makes it easier to bond with each other, or transports that make our consciousness of time and mortality easier to bear. We seek a holiday from our inner and outer restrictions, a more intense sense of the here and now, the beauty and value of the world we live in."

"The best way to waste your life, is by taking notes. The easiest way to avoid living is to just watch. Look for the details. Report. Don't participate."