Whole Life Quotes - Page 11

• I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Bliss, Chasing, Pray Love

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.190, A&C Black

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• To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Athlete, Exercise

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• Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Memories, Imagination, Personality

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• Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

  Richard Yates

  Yearning, Knows, Lucy

  Richard Yates (2010). “Young Hearts Crying”, p.154, Random House

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• My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Lonely, Gone, Boots

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• We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting the office of chief of police, but I've never noticed anyone hoping to get wiser. We say to ourselves: it'll be better under a new tsar, and in two hundred years it'll still be better, and nobody tries to make this good time come tomorrow. On the whole, life gets more and more complex every day and moves on its own sweet will, and people get more and more stupid, and get isolated from life in ever-increasing numbers.

  Anton Chekhov

  Sweet, Stupid, Nice

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• Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

  J.R. Ward

  Doors, Sometimes, Beats

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• Poems On Life: Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it. Let the dead have the immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love. Life's errors cry for the merciful beauty that can modulate their isolation into a harmony with the whole. Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Children, Love Life

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Poems On Life”

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• I was in love with Scott Bennett. That I had been in love with him my whole life, practically.

  Meg Cabot

  Been In Love, Whole

  Meg Cabot (2011). “Teen Idol”, p.251, Pan Macmillan

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• He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

  Martin Luther

  Love, Life, Song

  "Luther's Works: Table talk".

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• If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know...I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive!

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fun, Thinking, Bored

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• Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Book, People

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• This whole time, my whole life, that harsh, stony path was leading up to this one point. I followed it blindly, stumbling along the way, scraped and weary, without any idea of where it was leading, without ever realizing that with every step I was approaching the light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. And now that I've reached it, now that I'm here, I want to catch it in my hand, hold onto it forever to look back on - the point at which my new life really began.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Dark, Tunnels, Light

  Tabitha Suzuma (2011). “Forbidden”, p.391, Simon and Schuster

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• I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Lying, Ridiculous

  Arthur Miller (1994). “Death of a Salesman”, p.78, Heinemann

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• And in that one grey hair I saw my whole life and I said "I think I need a hair.

  Tim Burton

  Thinking, Hair, Needs

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• You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

  Ann Aguirre

  Feelings, Like You, Knows

  Ann Aguirre (2009). “Blue Diablo: A Corine Solomon Novel”, p.69, Penguin

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• If you're frightened of damaging yourself, you increase the risk of doing just that. Consider the tightrope walker. Do you think he spares any thought for falling while he's walking the rope? No, he accepts the risk, and enjoys the thrill of braving the danger. If you spend your whole life being careful not to break anything, you'll get terribly bored, you know... I can't think of anything more fun than being impulsive.

  Mathias Malzieu

  Fun, Fall, Thinking

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• Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Body, Soup

  Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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• There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Life And Death, Decision, Luck

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Want, Complaining

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• I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

  Daniel Keyes

  Men, Dedication, Important

  Daniel Keyes (2007). “Flowers for Algernon”, p.151, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Some people spend their whole lives looking for themselves, yet our self is the one thing we surely cannot lose (how like a cheap philosopher I am become, staying in this benighted place). From the moment we are conceived it is the pattern in our blood and our bones are printed through with it like sticks of seaside rock. Nora, on the other hand, says that she’s surprised anyone knows who they are, considering that every cell and molecule in our bodies has been replaced many times over since we were born.

  Kate Atkinson

  Rocks, Self, Cells

  Kate Atkinson (2013). “Emotionally Weird: A Novel”, p.11, Macmillan

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• He is the best, in my whole life i have only read his books!!!!!!

  Derek Landy

  Book, Whole

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• Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks a little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.

  Ramakrishna

  Wise, Men, Littles

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• The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour.

  Arnold Bennett

  Wise, Tea, May

  Arnold Bennett (2009). “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.13, ReadHowYouWant.com

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