life

"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these."

"I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life."

"I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much sweetness as I can decently manage, loving all the people I love, and doing as much as I can of the work I still have to do. I am going to write fire until it comes out of my ears, my eyes, my noseholes--everywhere. Until it's every breath I breathe. I'm going to go out like a fucking meteor!"

"You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect."

"When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh."

"She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war."

"I’d row a gondola like a column is not a row. My coffee may be cold, but my love is warm. When are you going to wake up and drink it?"

"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."

"I don’t want to make love last, I want to make love second to last. The last thing we’ll do is cuddle."

"That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another."

"Learn to drive?""Never,"said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger."

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

"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."

"The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."

"There is no wealth but life."

"In my memory her love shimmers, glimmers, and glitters the way light on black water reflects like diamonds, the treasure that was us."

"I was lost yesterday, I am found today and I will be forgotten tomorrow."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."