Whole Life Quotes - Page 10

• But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.

  Charles Bukowski

  Fighting, Simple, Want

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence the the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day. -Fitz Most prisons are of our own making. A man makes his own freedom, too. -Chade When you cut pieces out of the truth to avoid looking like a fool, you end up sounding like a moron instead. -Burrich We left. Walking uphill and into the wind. That suddenly seemed a metaphor for my whole life. -Fitz

  Robin Hobb

  Cutting, Men, Wind

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• Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

  Jane Austen

  Book, Reading, Should

  Jane Austen (1833). “Northanger Abbey”, p.24

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• Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Soulmate, Kindness, Believe

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• Seymour once said that all we do our whole lives is go from one little piece of Holy Ground to the next.

  J. D. Salinger

  Holy Ground, Pieces, Littles

  "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1963.

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• Indeed, ask every man separately whether he thinks it laudable and worthy of a man of this age to hold a position from which he receives a salary disproportionate to his work; to take from the people--often in poverty--taxes to be spent on constructing cannon, torpedoes, and other instruments of butchery, so as to make war on people with whom we wish to be at peace, and who feel the same wish in regard to us; or to receive a salary for devoting one's whole life to constructing these instruments of butchery, or to preparing oneself and others for the work of murder.

  Leo Tolstoy

  War, Men, Thinking

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• I'm going to die with Alexander's hand on my face, Tatiana thought. That is not a bad way to die. I cannot move. I can't get up. Just can't. She closed her eyes and felt herself drifting. Through the haze in front of her she heard Alexander's voice. "Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I've never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I'll take care of you.

  Paullina Simons

  Moving, Love You, Eye

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• My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love You, Moments, I Loved You

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.506, Wordsworth Editions

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• Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers.

  George Eliot

  Heart, People, Evil

  George Eliot (2006). “Everyone and everything in George Eliot”, M E Sharpe Inc

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• It's not enough to believe! Don't you see that, you stupid girl? You could spend your whole life hoping and believing! If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer. You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Girl, Stupid, Believe

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• Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Thinking, Doorways, Starting

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “Prodigal Summer”, p.329, Faber & Faber

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• Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

  Corita Kent

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

  Jim Butcher

  Lying, Believe, Past

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• Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

  Lev Grossman

  Strength, Pain, Mean

  Lev Grossman (2009). “The Magicians: A Novel”, p.173, Penguin

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• Is that the basis of friendship? Is it as reactive as that? Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?... Do we all buzz or ring or light up when people press our vanity buttons, and only then? Can I think of anyone in my whole life whom I have liked without his first showing signs of liking me?

  Wallace Stegner

  Thinking, Vanity, Light

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• I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.

  Cory Doctorow

  Years, Waiting, Ten

  Cory Doctorow (2010). “Little Brother”, p.334, Macmillan

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• You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!

  Flannery O'Connor

  Boys, Daddy, Asking

  Flannery O'Connor (2016). “A Good Man is Hard to Find”, p.14, Faber & Faber

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• So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through your whole life, making the mechanical motions of living, adopting as your own sets of ideas you've come to any conslusion for yourself as to what life is all about.

  Catherine Marshall

  Ideas, Issues, Long

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• I said that I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda. If you had a giant panda in your back yard, anything could go wrong — someone could die, or stop loving you, or you could get sick — and if you could look outside and see this adorable, ridiculous, boffo panda, you'd start to laugh; you'd be so filled with thankfulness and amusement that everything would be O.K. again.

  Anne Lamott

  Adorable, Sick, Laughing

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• Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

  Kathryn Stockett

  Wrinkles, Names, Two

  Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.298, Penguin

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• 'A friend,' he repeated, sentimental suddenly. 'Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can't really happen outside sleep.'

  E. M. Forster

  Dream, Sleep, Lasts

  "Maurice".

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• He said, "People wait their whole lives for the kind of happiness we have.

  Melissa Bank

  People, Waiting, Kind

  Melissa Bank (2000). “The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing”, p.74, Penguin

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• We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Helping, Our Thoughts

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• I'll get angry in the same way with the coachman Ivan, argue in the same way, speak my mind inappropriately, there will be the same wall between my soul's holy of holies and other people, even my wife, I'll accuse her in the same way of my own fear and then regret it, I'll fail in the same way to understand with my reason why I pray, and yet I will pray--but my life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every minute of it, is not only not meaningless, as it was before, but has the unquestionable meaning of the good which it is in my power to put into it!

  Leo Tolstoy

  Wall, Regret, Wife

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• For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

  Virginia Woolf

  Children, Lakes, Ducks

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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