Lives Quotes (page 268)

• 
• 
• 

• learning
• giving
• die

This is what youth must figure out: Girls, love, and living. The having, the not having, The spending and giving, And the meloncholy time of not knowing. This is what age must learn about: The ABC of dying. The going, yet not going, The loving and leaving, And the unbearable knowing and knowing E. B. White

• time
• pointed
• returned

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. Graham Greene

• age
• fall
• love

Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette, move to a new neighborhood, subscribe to a different newspaper, fall in and out of love, we are protesting in ways both frivolous and deep against the not to be diluted dullness of day-to-day living. Truman Capote

• lived
• mysteries
• us

Only mystery makes us live. Only mystery. Federico Garcia Lorca

• die
• world
• leaving

That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed. L. Frank Baum

• lively
• our lives
• ordinary

We meet no ordinary people in our lives. C. S. Lewis

• future
• sometimes
• time love

I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love. Dave Eggers

• life
• actuality
• my life

I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. Mark Twain

• space
• exacting
• how much

You never know exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• she
• moments
• blue

He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• priority
• determination
• achievement

The essence of the charge made against the modern high-status ideal is that it is guilty of effecting a gigantic distortion of priorities, of elevating to the highest level of achievement a process of material accumulation that should instead be only one of many factors determining the direction of our lives under a more truthful, more broadly defined conception of ourselves. Alain de Botton

• live
• masters
• ways

There is no way to master the fact with which I live. John Barth

• black
• different
• music

Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer’s head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just... Margaret Atwood

• happy
• charming
• charms

Nothing is more charming than the glow of happiness amid squalor. There is a rose-tinted attic in all our lives. Victor Hugo

• boys
• shiva
• thinking

Rich kid," Shiva yelled, "you don't know one damn thing! What purpose, man? What thing in the whole sister-sleeping world got reason, yara? For what reason you're rich and I'm poor? Where's the reason in starving, man? God knows how many millions of damn fools living in this country, man, and you think there's a purpose! Man, I'll tell you -- you got to get what you can, do what you can with it, and then you got to die. That's reason, rich boy. Everything else is only mother-sleeping wind! Salman Rushdie