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Whole Life Quotes (page 8)

Douglas Adams quote: "He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he..."
He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. Douglas Adams
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life..."
I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time? Elizabeth Gilbert
The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die. Erich Fromm
Arnold Bennett quote: "The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon..."
The proper, wise balancingof one's whole life may depend upon thefeasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. Arnold Bennett
everyone is a genius. but if a fish is juged by its ability to clim a tree is will live its whole life beleiving that it is stupid Albert Einstein
[H]e never ceased in his heroic and earnest endeavor to love them, to be just to them, to do them no harm, for the love of his neighbor was as deeply in him as the hatred of himself, and so his whole life was an example that love of one's neighbor is not possible without love of oneself, and that self-hate is really the same thing as sheer egoism, and in the long run breeds the same cruel isolation and despair. Herman Hesse
If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido. William S. Burroughs
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. I have come to believe that genuine democracy cannot exist without the freedom to imagine and the right to use imaginative works without any restrictions. To have a whole life, one must have the possibility of publicly shaping and expressing private worlds, dreams, thoughts and desires, of constantly having access to a dialogue between the public and private worlds.... Azar Nafisi
You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial. Chuck Palahniuk
Epicurus quote: "Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole..."
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends. Epicurus
Something foreign is always living itself through you. Your whole life is the vehicle for something to come to earth An evil spirit. A theory. Amarketing campaign. A political strategy. A religious doctrine. Chuck Palahniuk
Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal... Graham Swift
Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her..."
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All June, I bound the rose in sheaves. Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves, And strew them where Pauline may pass. She will not turn aside? Alas! Let them lie. Suppose they die? The chance was they might take her eye. How many a month I strove to suit These stubborn fingers to the lute! To-day I venture all I know. She will not hear my music? So! Break the string -- fold music's wing. Suppose Pauline had bade me sing! My whole life long I learned to love. This hour my utmost art I prove... Robert Browning
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "It took my whole life to buy this stuff."
It took my whole life to buy this stuff. Chuck Palahniuk

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