The ordinary procedure of the nineteenth century is that when a powerful and noble personage encounters a man of feeling, he kills, exiles, imprisons or so humiliates him that the other, like a fool, dies of grief.
StendhalStichwörter: life living emotion peer-pressure genuineness
How can I expect readers to know who I am if I do not tell them about my family, my friends, the relationships in my life? Who am I if not where I fit in the world, where I fit in the lives of the people dear to me?
Rabih AlameddineStichwörter: life friends writing family fitting-in relationships living sharing sharing-life
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Friedrich NietzscheStichwörter: living forgetting
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
Stichwörter: life poetry time living
The harassed look is that of a desperately tired swimmer or runner; yet there is no question of stopping. The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops. Not because it is heroic. It can imagine no alternative.
Staring and staring into the mirror, it sees many faces within its face - the face of the child, the boy, the young man, the not-so-young-man - all present still, preserved as fossils, dead. Their message to this live dying creature is: Look at us - we have died -what is there to be afraid of?
It answers them: But it happened so gradually, so easily. I am afraid of being rushed.
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime
Samuel ButlerStichwörter: life existence living dying sensible lifetime
The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
Mutant Enemy, Buffy the Vampire SlayerI thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.
Susan Beth PfefferStichwörter: family sun living survival
The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.
Alice WalkerStichwörter: living spirituality materialism oral-tradition
We get so caught up in the life we are leading and forget that we are capable of living.
Caring for Eleanor by Sonia Rumzi
Stichwörter: life living life-lessons caring-for-eleanor rumzi
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