Quotes About Pursuit

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it.

Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?

I'm gonna hunt my life down and grab it.

I'd rather chase the sun than wait for it. -Ed Kennedy

Each one of us is what he pursues and cares for. In everyday terms, we understand ourselves and our existence by way of the activities we pursue and the things we care of.

I guess one of the great agonies of life is that we are constantly trying to finish that which is unfinishable

We must condemn those who are perpetuating the violence, and not the individuals who engage in the pursuit of their constitutional rights.

But the pursuit of wealth would not inspire passion.

There is no happily-ever-after to run to. We have to work for happiness.

capacity would. He would probably consider that to send back the launch or to keep it at a wharf would make pursuit easy if the police did happen to get on his track. How, then, could he conceal the launch and yet have her at hand when wanted? I wondered

Then what are they? Who is this K. K. K., and why does he pursue this unhappy family?

The sex-drive in the Freudian system is essentially something to be disposed of -through the proper channels or by sublimation; pleasure is derived not from its pursuit, but from getting rid of it.

HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit

A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbour with mast and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he is happy or miserable; for his life was never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over.

In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.

Not the least of the torments which plague our existence is the constant pressure of time, which never lets us so much as draw breath but pursues us all like a taskmaster with a whip. It ceases to persecute only him it has delivered over to boredom.

Der Tor läuft den Genüssen des Lebens nach und sieht sich betrogen.

Es difícil encontrar la felicidad dentro de uno mismo, pero es imposible encontrarla en otro lugar.

The cops then arrived and he fled in his car, leading them on a chase that ended in the massive crash.

I could see jabs from his flashlight cutting into the woods on either side of me. He was back there, somewhere. The light beam was like a knife and I didn't want it on my back.

You haven't known terror until you've been chased by a man-sized crow.

In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth.

You have forbidden me to look for you, you may damn me, you may choose to discard me...but by the right of the fact that I am alive, I must know that you are...I must see you this once. - Dagny Taggart

I think it's a sin to sit down and let your life go without making a try for it.