Living Things Quotes (page 39)

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• women
• different
• losing

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure Dorothy Allison

• art
• words
• city

There's no such thing as civilization. The word just means the art of living in cities. Roger Zelazny

• thinking
• caring
• world

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it. David Attenborough

• book
• living
• imports

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. Edmund White

• death
• fearless
• lively

Fearless" is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. Taylor Swift

• die
• end
• believe

God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life and enjoy it, so long as we retain it. Existence never was originally meant to be that useless, blank, pale, slow-trailing thing it often becomes to many, and is becoming to me, among the rest. Charlotte Bronte

• fall
• daily
• she

She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling. Milan Kundera

• thinking
• look
• prays

We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike. ...But none of these things mean we all think alike. Jodi Picoult

• end
• remained
• remaining

Our lives begin to end the day we remain silent about the things that matter. Martin Luther King jr.

• moments
• mindfulness
• fall

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too. James Agee

• wishes
• learning
• patriotic

How could you be so naive as to tell a human being the truth? Men live by embedding themselves in ongoing systems of illusion. Religion. Patriotism. Economics. Fashion. That sort of thing. If you wish to gain the favor of the two-legged ilk, you must learn to fabricate as wholeheartedly as they do. Tom Robbins

• betrayal
• love
• words

The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• great
• destiny
• she

Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than... William Shakespeare

• view
• broadening
• lively

Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives. Napolean Hill

• personal
• end
• night

Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was... Carson McCullers