Quotes About Life

Everything's a wheel, turning and turning, never stopping. The frogs is part of it, and the bugs, and the fish, and the wood thrush, too. And people. But never the same ones. Always coming in new, always growing and changing, and always moving on. That's the way it's supposed to be. That's the way it is.

You can't have living without dying. So you can't call it living, what we got. We just are, we just be, like rocks beside the road.

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

For some, time passes slowly. An hour can seem like an eternity. For others, there was never enough. For Jesse Tuck, it didn't exist.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

But dying's part of the wheel, right there next to being born. You can't pick out the pieces you like and leave the rest. Being part of the whole thing, that's the blessing.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.

You dont have to live forever just live.

Still-there's no use trying to figure why things fall the way they do. Things just are, and fussing don't bring changes.

I was having that dream again, the good one where we're all in heaven and never heard of Treegap.

Accept loss forever Be submissive to everything, open, listening No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge Be in love with your life

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

It's the process of writing and life that matters.Too many writers have written great books and gone insane or alcoholic or killed themselves. This process teaches about sanity. We are trying to become sane along with our poems and stories.

When you write a memory, it isn't in the past anyway. It's alive right now.

LIFE IS NOT ORDERLY. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

Don't worry, no one ever died of it. You might cry or laugh, but not die.

There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.

If you never sit still, it does not even hint to that deeper self in you that you are interested. By practice, by showing up, we are signaling that deep motor, that hum of life, that we are ready: Help us. Pay attention and lead us out of our confusion.

Happy?" He stared her down. "You can't expect happiness. If it comes along—consider yourself lucky, but that's not what life's about.

Writing can teach us the dignity of speaking the truth, and it spreads out from the page into all of our life, and it should

We have lived! Our moments are important. This is what it is to be a writer: to be the carrier of details that make up history.

We must become writers who accept things as they are, come to love the details, and step forward with a yes on our lips so there can be no more noes in the world, noes that invalidate life and stop these details from continuing.

and though death is howling at our backs and life is roaring at our faces, we can just begin to write, simply begin to write what we have to say.

the artist and the alcoholic have parallel paths. They both go into the darkness, but the alcoholic gets stuck there. The artist (if she is not also addicted) goes into the darkness and is transformed by the experience and comes out more alive.