Life Quotes by David Mitchell

maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it

— David Mitchell

“How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.”

— David Mitchell

Every nowhere is somewhere

— David Mitchell

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

— David Mitchell

“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”

— David Mitchell

“Survival often demands our courage.”

— David Mitchell

“When you win, the rules change, and you find you’ve lost”

— David Mitchell

“Well wakey fucking wakey, sunbeam! Life's fucking Borstal!”

— David Mitchell

“ Times are you say a person's b'liefs ain't true, they think you're sayin' their lifes ain't true an' their truth ain't true. ”

— David Mitchell

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent…

— David Mitchell

“& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a…

— David Mitchell

“I have no earliest memories, Archivist. Every day of my life in Papa Song was as uniform as the fries we vended.”

— David Mitchell

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

— David Mitchell

A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as…

— David Mitchell

Ive never had cocaine. I work in showbusiness and no one has ever offered me cocaine. Can you believe that? It makes…

— David Mitchell

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we…

— David Mitchell

“The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, it turns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then…

— David Mitchell

The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes…

— David Mitchell

“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection;…

— David Mitchell

This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles…

— David Mitchell

When you're out of your own cultural context you have conversations with yourself that you just don't have at any other point…

— David Mitchell

“Me, I want to bloody kick this moronic bloody world in the bloody teeth over and over till it bloody understands that…

— David Mitchell

Mother used to say escape is never further than the nearest book. Well, Mumsy, no, not really. Your beloved large-print sagas of…

— David Mitchell

“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned…

— David Mitchell

“...I shall pledge myself to the Abolitionist cause, because I owe my life to a self-freed slave & because I must begin…

— David Mitchell

“Human life, Borges said, is a cascade of possible directions, and we take only one, or we perceive that we take only…

— David Mitchell

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving…

— David Mitchell

“Shiroyama’s heart stops. The earth’s pulse beats against his ear. An inch away is a go clamshell stone, perfect and smooth ……

— David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of…

— David Mitchell

“Conduct your life in such a way that, when your train breaks down in the eve of your years, you have a…

— David Mitchell

“Your life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean." "Yet, what is any ocean but a multitude of…

— David Mitchell

“I'm not good with the low-level unexplained. I worry at such things. I'm quite relaxed about the great mysteries of the universe;…

— David Mitchell

“When watching the news, it’s so easy to forget what most of us are like: pleasant, polite, socially shy. We don’t want…

— David Mitchell

“Patience's design flaw became obvious for the first time in my life: the outcome is decided not during the course of play…

— David Mitchell

“Surgeons are a singular brotherhood, Adam. To us, people aren't sacred beings crafted in the Almighty's image, no, people are joints of…

— David Mitchell

The state of childhood resonates with life inside a fantasy novel. If you have no control over how you spend large chunks…

— David Mitchell

“Old Father Timothy offers this advice to his younger readers, included for free in the price of this memoir: conduct your life…

— David Mitchell

“Cowardice is nothing to do with it - suicide takes considerable courage. Japanese have the right idea. No, what selfish is to…

— David Mitchell