Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anaïs NinLife is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
James BaldwinTags: life death religion living
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: life poet-quotes
Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.
Mary Harris JonesTags: life death living dead prayer
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Anaïs NinTags: life
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Tags: life pain love poetry struggle
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
Orson WellesTags: life
The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Diane ArbusTags: life intelligence education knowledge
You know you are truly alive when you’re living among lions.
Karen BlixenOne of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: life activism philosophical
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