I believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
“Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll… — Susan Meissner Copy Share Image
God is life; and in that life which is God there are no years. ... The human sense of life is not… — Joel S. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Science works as a way to make sense of life and the universe. Hard SF as my preferred fictional genre just feels… — Edward M. Lerner Copy Share Image
Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
A critical discourse that had respect for the mystery of art would look to the sense of life which finds expression in… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to… — Baal Shem Tov Copy Share Image
Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
It would have been impossible for me to have told anyone what I derived from these novels, for it was nothing less… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on.… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“In Mexico, I first encountered the attitude that was missing from the optimistic sense of living in the United States: a tragic… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
',Alive' stems from emotional growth and contentment. Before writing the song, I was swimming in a pool of hurt, guilt and spiritual… — Ravyn Lenae Copy Share Image
Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I… — Mian Mian Copy Share Image
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“In much of urban and Western civilization today, with no proper tragic sense of life, we try to believe that it is… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The sheer vital energy of the Woolfs always astonishes me when I stop to consider what they accomplished on any given day.… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“So why does our writing matter, again?" they ask. Because of the spirit, I say. Because of the heart. Writing and reading… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Up there in my little room I was reading revolutionary works and had the feeling that the whole world might explode at… — Ernesto Sabato Copy Share Image
“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life in… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“ I Am! I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am… — John Clare Copy Share Image
“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
“An individual's torments only have meaning within his or her personal experience. Faced with the collective we are as naked and helpless… — Aldo Carotenuto Copy Share Image
“What I loved were books that heightened the sense of life’s wonders without denying the complexity and horror that sometimes accompanied those… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“One has to be at least as ancient as I am now to see that if you try to make sense of… — Andrew Levkoff Copy Share Image
Depression is an illness that robs one of the meaning of life. Heal the illness. As the depression heals, enthusiasm, well-being, and… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
I think that one wants from a painting a sense of life. The final suggestion, the final statement, has to be not… — Jasper Johns Copy Share Image
I try to be honest and open and there's vulnerability in doing that, and insecurity in posting certain things but I think… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
“I don't try to make sense of suffering. I try to make sense of life...I try each day to see God's will...I… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
