Famous Quotes

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."

"Life isn't fair, it's just fairer than death, that's all."

"You live but once"

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."

"I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here."

"People make mistakes in life through believing too much, but they have a damned dull time if they believe too little."

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.."

"I just need to know that someone out there listens and understands and doesn't try to sleep with someone even if they could have. I need to know these people exist."

"Life becomes easier and more beautiful when we can see the good in other people."

"The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living."

"I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else."

"Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen."

"Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder"

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

"After all, tomorrow is another day!"

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense."

"The right thing and the easy thing are never the same."

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

"Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create."

"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them."

"Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."