“It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWritingDifferentEndsMightAbleYoungTurnsResultsToo MuchOne DayMountainQuittingAdviseParalyzedYoung WritersWrong TurnDrivel Author:Alice Munro
“We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we have to do this, we have to have a half-hour of yoga, an hour of meditation, 2 hours of this, and then 12 hours of work and non-stop electronic gadgets, gizmos etc. etc., and then go home and take care of the family, and then take the children to wherever, and what tends to happen is we do way too much. The society does way too much. One of the greatest things in healing is try for just one day to do nothing. Very difficult.” ThinkingWayTryingChildrenDoeHomeHappensCareDifficultHoursHealingHalfToo MuchMeditationModernOne DayYogaTake CareJust OneEtcUnfortunateModern SocietyHalf HoursGadgetsNon Stop Author:Maya Tiwari
“I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.” LongFactsToo MuchOne DayDiedDrunkIronCrabs Author:Ian Fleming
“The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong.” EndsViewsToo MuchOne DayModelsConsumersConsumptionPersonal Views Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“If you don't take a Sabbath, something is wrong. You're doing too much, you're being too much in charge. You've got to quit, one day a week, and just watch what God is doing when you're not doing anything.” IfsWatchesToo MuchWeekOne DayQuittingSabbath Author:Eugene H. Peterson
“Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks she does, it doesn't matter. Because Jack is going to leave her one day. i know he will. He's too much for Schuyler. They're wrong for each other. Anyone can see that. And when he leaves her, I'll be there. However long it takes, I'll still be there for her. Waiting.” IfsThinkingKnowsLongDoeStillsEndsMatterTogetherGivenWaitingDoubtToo MuchParticularOne Day Author:Melissa de la Cruz
“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.” MenHeartFatherToo MuchMeditationFailingMy HeartOne DayDiseaseDiedIronNot AfraidGreedyTombstoneCrabs Book:gilt-edged bonds Source: gilt-edged bonds
“We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.” NeedsLightEyeLeftToo MuchHonestyTearsGoes OnComfortOne DayIllusionNakedBricksLiberatingShieldsRelentlessDazzleBright Lights Book:The Sweet Far Thing Source: The Sweet Far Thing
“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.” KnowsWayDoeHas BeensEndsHandsSeemsNextTakenToo MuchWorstBabyOughtOne DayWindowShameIndifferenceDependentKnotsAnnihilationLoopsRecoveringHutsLanterns Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel