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Quotes About Life

His life was not confined and the delight he took in this observation could not be explained by its suggestion of escape.
~ John Cheever
Justina's life had been exemplary, but by ending it she seemed to have disgraced us all.
~ John Cheever
Baz? insanlar tutkular?n? bir maceradan çok bir performans olarak yaÅŸarlar.
~ John Cheever
La cosa più meravigliosa della vita sembra essere che alla fine usiamo solo una parte infinetisimale del nostro potenziale autodistruttivo. Magari lo desideriamo, magari è ciò che sogniamo, ma basta un raggio di luce, un cambio del vento per dissuaderci.
~ John Cheever
Forse è la vita chiusa che facciamo qui, e la noia in cui ci imbattiamo quando cerchiamo di variarla. Queste abitudini, questi giorni come vestiti vecchi. Ieri un giorno di luce brillante, di brillantezza acustica: il tintinnio di ruote di treni lontani sui binari risuonava netto. Dolori da sinusite. Ho portato Ben in macchina sulla collina a vedere il tramonto, il buio terso, le colline, le luci lontane, le nuvole tinte, il cielo color lavanda e limone.
~ John Cheever
since these are hours and days out of one's life, can there be any other course but to look back into them, even though at times they seem like waste?
~ John Cheever
They had come to praise him. It was so beautiful, so comical, so true to life! the doctor said. The little girl gave him the flowers and the Mayor embraced him lightly. Oh, we thought, signore, he said, that you were merely a poet.
~ John Cheever
Bu hayatta gerçekten unutman?n yolu o kadar nadir bulunuyor ki, diye düÅŸündü.
~ John Cheever
This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies! It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot!
~ John Cleese
I now see, was the fact that there were so many areas of my emotional life where I was muddled and unresolved and therefore ripe for horrendous embarrassment that I was pointlessly guarded about everything. The lurking fear that I might accidentally give away something I did not want to reveal resulted in blanket self-censorship.
~ John Cleese
My goal is to live the truly religious life, and express it in my music. If you live it, when you play there's no problem because the music is part of the whole thing. To be a musician is really something. It goes very, very deep. My music is the spiritual expression of what I am - my faith, my knowledge, my being.
~ John Coltrane
It may be a good world,' he remarked sententiously, and 'and it may be a bad world, but it's the world; and us has got to handle 'un with eyes in our heads for landslides.
~ John Cowper Powys
Perhaps I've never known reality as other human beings know it,' he thought. 'My life has been industrious, monotonous, patient. I've carried my load like a camel. And I've been able to do this because it hasn't been my real life at all! My mythology has been my real life.' The
~ John Cowper Powys
I don't care whether I make money. I don't care whether I get fame. I don't care whether I leave any work behind me when I die. All I want is certain sensations!' And
~ John Cowper Powys
If there is some monstrous consciousness behind all life,' he thought angrily, 'it's responsible for all the horrors! Come
~ John Cowper Powys
Well! my best to ye both and so says Phyllis from us both. I think I enjoy life more not less now that old age has stopped all my naughty little ways!    Yours as ever       Jack the Vampire & Corpse Lover.
~ John Cowper Powys
What mortals call Sex is only a manifestation in human life, and in animal and vegetable life, of a certain spasm, a certain delicious shudder, a certain orgasm of a purely psychic nature, which belongs to the Personality of the First Cause.
~ John Cowper Powys
O it does fascinate me so, my new-old-new friend, to compare our lives. Of course I am really not an artist or a writer tho' I am a story-teller. I am a born orator and even now I long & long & long for The Platform as an old circus clown longs—or as we pretend he longs for the Ring! On the platform and there alone I am really myself & in my element & now I have been away from the platform for 20 years!
~ John Cowper Powys
Yes, the hardest is the beginning. Yes, you get swallowed due to your feelings and suffocated from one opinion. But you have to just continue living.
~ Unknown
Life is very confusing. One day we are the happiest person in the world and tomorrow we are most lonely in the world.
~ Unknown
Everybody has difficult years but sometimes they end up being the greatest years of your life, if you survive them.
~ Brittany Murphy
I love sleep, because my life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake
~ Unknown
Do your best to avoid stress and try to enjoy life. Quit thinking so much. Why complicate life? It's already complicated enough.
~ Unknown
Sometimes life is completely complicated, but you decide to make it simple because you accept to be beautiful and it means that your choice is to be happy.
~ Unknown