Whole Life Quotes - Page 8

• And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?

  C. S. Lewis

  Memories, Years, Expectations

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Out of the Silent Planet”, p.75, Simon and Schuster

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• There are things which some people never attempt during their whole lives, but one of these is not poetry. Poetry attacks all human beings sooner or later, and, like the measles, is mild or violent according to the age of the sufferer.

  Mark Twain

  People, Age, Violent

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• No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Heart, Practice

  Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.3, Random House

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• Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond that pain.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Depression, Running

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• I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Whole

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.960, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• It's like my whole life never happened, When I see you, it's as if I never had a thought. I know this dream, it might be crazy, But it's the only one I've got.

  Bob Dylan

  Dream, Crazy, Might

  Song: Emotionally Yours, Album: Empire Burlesque, 1985

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• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Home, Tired

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Lying, Verbs, Seeing

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• [Speaking] is never without fear; of visibility, of the harsh light of scrutiny and perhaps judgment, of pain, of death. But we have lived through all of those already, in silence, except death. And I remind myself all the time now, that if I were to have been born mute, and had maintained an oath of silence my whole life for safety, I would still have suffered, and I would still die.

  Audre Lorde

  Pain, Light, Safety

  Audre Lorde (1997). “The Cancer Journals”

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• but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer the questions they already ask.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  People, Answers, Asks

  Elizabeth McCracken (2013). “The Giant's House”, p.85, Random House

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• It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kissing, Kind, Perks Of A Wallflower

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• I must say, though, that a man who has staked his whole life on the card of a woman's love and who, when that card is trumped, falls to pieces and lets himself go to the dogs -- a fellow like that is not a man, not a male. You say he's unhappy -- you know best. But all the nonsense hasn't been taken out of him yet. I'm sure he really believes he's a smart fellow just because he reads that rag Galignani and saves a muzhik from a flogging once a month.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Dog, Smart, Fall

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• People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

  Malcolm X

  Book, Men, People

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.398, Ballantine Books

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• I think the most significant work we'll do in our whole life, in our whole world is done within the four walls of our home.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Home, Thinking

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• If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Kindness, Cutting, Clouds

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Villette”, p.475, The Floating Press

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• You can see a person's whole life in the cancer they get.

  Haruki Murakami

  Cancer, Persons, Whole

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• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  Adam Smith

  Stupid, Exercise, Simple

  Adam Smith (2017). “The Wealth of Nations (illustrated)”, p.590, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

  Victor Hugo

  Sacrifice, One Day, Gains

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.700, Wordsworth Editions

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• Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

  Don DeLillo

  Rushing, Brain, Molecules

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.

  Rosa Luxemburg

  Beautiful, Mean, Destiny

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• All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

  Ken Kesey

  Psychology, Looks, Firsts

  Ken Kesey (2012). “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.166, Penguin

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• We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)

  Pema Chodron

  Escaping, Mind, Monsters

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• He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to leave. It was as if my whole life revolved around trying to judge the right point in a conversation to say goodbye.

  Haruki Murakami

  Goodbye, Judging, Trying

  "Hunting Knife" by Haruki Murakami, www.newyorker.com. November 17, 2003.

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• Out of your whole life give but a moment! All of your life that has gone before, All to come after it, -so you ignore, So you make perfect the present, condense, In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment, Thought and feeling and soul and sense.

  Robert Browning

  Giving, Perfect, Soul

  Robert Browning, “Now!”

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• This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this.

  Betty Smith

  Sleep, Eight, People

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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