“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”
Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet
“Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.”
“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.”
“Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.”
“Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.”
Source: Conflicts: Three Tales
“As yet we know nothing of what goes to create or evoke the active spark of life.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Bram Stoker (Illustrated)
“The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.”
Source: Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
Source: Can Such Things Be?
Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce
“Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.”
Source: All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things
“How strange a checker-work of Providence is the life of man!”
Source: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner
“Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.”
Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West
“Life, the river of the Spirit, consenting to anguish and sorrow.”
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
“To feed death with her works is here life's doom.”
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series
“Life is a theatre of alarms and contentions.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly.”
Source: Conversations With Myself
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”
“Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
“Activity does not necessarily mean life.”
Source: A Scanner Darkly
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“What unlooked-for things do happen, to be sure, in a long life!”
Source: The Eleven Comedies
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
Source: Underworld: Picador Classic
“Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.”
Source: Underworld: A Novel
Source: Point Omega
“Life consists of burning up questions.”
Source: Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings
“By the time you learn the rules of life, you're too old to play the game.”