They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong, or it might descend like a sudden catastrophe, this blankness between ourselves and the rest of the world. The blankness might not even be obvious to others. But on our side of that severed connection, it was hell, a life lived behind glass. The only difference between mild depression and severe schizophrenia was the amount of sound and air that seeped in.
I wondered at him, so wise and so foolish, to have lived with me all these months and not know that the worst storms break inside a man.
You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is.
I have lived in the United States for half of my life, my entire adult life.
I’ve always lived in the moment.
I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.
This is the extent of his knowledge of the sea: it was very big, it was salty, and fish lived there.
the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.
I think we should be proud of the fact that our face has got lines, because at least that means we have lived.
I met people when we lived down in Raleigh who'd ask where I grew up, and I'd say about two hours west of Asheville, and they'd say they didn't know there was any North Carolina two hours west of Asheville. It was in many ways an isolated place.
What good in a man's life if it's not lived free eh?
Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine.
All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.
I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience
Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.
I love Southeast Asia. As a child, I lived in that part of the world. My first time in Burma was in 1958 with my parents.