life

"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."

"...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."

"There is no thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives."

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

"My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature."

"The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong."

"And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit."

"We live in a dark and romantic and quite tragic world."

"The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience."

"Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever."

"A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life."

"Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me."

"you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets."

"Life is a horizontal fall."

"Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people."

"Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play, can't know serendipity unless you risk."

"I wonder if I'll ever have to decide which is worse, life as we're living or no life at all."

"We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself."

"We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art."

"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."