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Quotes About Life

I was not happy in any way that would make sense to most people, but I was, for the first time in my life, deeply content with what life was giving me. Part
~ Katherine Paterson
If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.
~ Katherine Paterson
Ain't no one ever told you yet? I recon I thought you've all figured out. - What? - That all this stuff about happy-endings is lies. The only ending in this world is death.
~ Katherine Paterson
He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing.
~ Katherine Paterson
He didn't want to die. He had hardly begun to live.
~ Katherine Paterson
He lived long enough to give the chaplain his name—John Goetchius—but died before he could tell the kind man where his home was.
~ Katherine Paterson
What price did William pay for your life, for your loyalty sworn by oath? Could I purchase it from him? -Aislinn
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Büyük bir boÅŸluÄŸuniçinden ç?karak yavaÅŸ yavaÅŸ hayata dönmeye baÅŸlad?,bu belirsizlik an?ndan daha öncesinini yaÅŸamam?? gibiydi.Sonsuz boÅŸluÄŸun içinde ne mant?k ne de an?lar vard?.Karanl?k içinde yüzen bir embriyo gibiydi,ya??yordu,nefes al?yordu ama içinde bulunduÄŸu dünyadan ve benliÄŸinden bir ÅŸekilde uzaktayd?,her ÅŸey pusluydu.
~ Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
They both had that in common, the desire to be needed, to know that they made someone's life a little better.
~ Kathleen Fuller
I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.
~ Kathleen Norris
Well, too bad, Diogenes: I make no apologies for a life that privileged pleasure, poise, and politesse. Had your lantern light fallen on my face that bright March morning I could have told you, honestly, that I have never been dishonest.
~ Kathleen Rooney
When you are older and have swum out into the stream of life, you'll see -- there are no good people, little girl. We're all trying and failing, trying too hard and failing too often. Remember that. We shouldn't judge too harshly, in the end, the sins of others...
~ Kathleen Tessaro
There are no great fanfares for the truly great moments of your life. Just dripping taps and the sound of your own footsteps, walking from one room into another
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Some of us, no matter how hard we try, aren't meant to lead ordinary lives. Fate finds us. Gives us a shove.
~ Kathleen Tessaro
Dying," she said in her last week, "is normal. It's as normal as being born.
~ Kathrine Kressmann Taylor
We can't cherry-pick the parts of our story we'd like to keep. Our lives are a melting pot of regrets, triumphs, sorrow and joy. You have to accept it all.
~ Kathryn Hughes
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Without hope it is nearly impossible to live. Hope is the air that our spirits breathe.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Her chest was a frail cage for the beating of her heart.
~ Kathryn Lasky
Life doesn't exist inside language: too bad for me.
~ Kathy Acker
If we keep on fucking, I'm not gonna die.
~ Kathy Acker
Meanwhile the temperature is getting hotter and hotter so no one can think clearly. No one perceives. No one cares. Insane madness come out like life is a terrific party.
~ Kathy Acker
Come alive, dead heart, and sing.
~ Kathy Acker
For reason, on the one hand, signifies the idea of a free, human social life. On the other hand, reason is the court of judgment of calculation, the instrument of domination, and the means for the greatest exploitation of nature.
~ Kathy Acker