“It’s not your life, it’s life. Life is bigger than you. Life isn’t something that you possess, it’s something that you take part in and you witness.”— Louis C.K., imdb.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.”— David Starr Jordan, amazon.com
“It’s not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That’s the problem. [He] was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?”— John Green, amazon.com
“I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room and melt into it. I can become invisible. It’s an art, and I am a wonderful practitioner.”— Christine Feehan, amazon.com
“Life’s tough. It’s a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don’t let doubt take that away from you.”— Riley Murphy, amazon.com
“If people are living the same as always, with their bellies full of food, they’ll just go on the same way. If they get hungry and unhappy enough, something happens.”— Paul Bowles, amazon.com
“We don’t ever have to be ashamed of feelings, of tears, for feelings are the rain upon the earth’s blinding dust: our own hard egotistic hearts.”— Kathy Acker, amazon.com
“Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life.”— Mary Ellen Mark, maryellenmark.com
“Maybe that's enlightenment enough - to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.”— Anthony Bourdain, amazon.com
“The best connections aren’t just about feeling less alone; they’re about finding ways to look at the universe more broadly and enthusiastically.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”— George Bernard Shaw, amazon.com