“They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there's anyone left alive!”— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com
“Old souls can be seen as strange people because they often hold unconventional ideals and standards of living. They often feel a sense of separation from themselves and the ‘real world’ because things like obtaining great wealth, owning a lot of expensive possessions, and other traits of living a ma…”— Koty Neelis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new under…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“You'd be surprised what you can live without.”— Sara Hess, Dr. Gregory House, Hugh Laurie, amazon.com
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“You know what? Forget what I just said. You’re already a part of this. You will eat, you will laugh at stupid things, you will stay up all night just to see what it feels like, you will fall painfully in love, you will have babies of your own, you will doubt and regret and yearn and keep a secret. Y…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Most of life is offline, and I think it always will be; eating and aching and sleeping and loving happen in the body. But it's not impossible to imagine losing my appetite for those things; they aren't always easy, and they take so much time. In twenty years I'd be interviewing air and water and hea…”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Sometimes I looked at her sleeping face, the living flesh of it, and was overwhelmed by how precarious it was to love a living thing. She could die simply from lack of water. It hardly seemed safer than falling in love with a plant.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn’t dying.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“If there were a map of the solar system, but instead of stars it showed people and their degrees of separation, my star would be the one you had to travel the most light-years from to get to his. You would die getting to him.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.”— Miranda July, amazon.com