The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Trying to discern what was different about them, she decided it was a new sense of life. They seemed to shimmer with… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I had learnt to seek intensity — more of life, a concentrated sense of life. — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I try to make sense of life. I try to keep myself open to people and to laughter and to love and… — Thea Bowman Copy Share Image
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
Becoming a parent gives you access to a whole world of feeling. It gives you a much stronger sense of life and… — Laurence Fox Copy Share Image
“There seemed a deep sense of life and joy about all; and although no airs blew from out the Heavens, yet everything… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
The essential discovery of maturity has little if anything to do with information about the names, the locations, and the sequence of… — Walter Lippmann 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
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
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
“We are all, I realise, even as I write this, merely moving closer to our deaths. At the end of this sentence… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
I definitely think religion is responsible for a lot of the evils of the world. I mean that's not really in debate.… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
We can safely say, therefore, that whereas some moralists may find it possible to make a distinction between two spheres and reigns-one… — Joseph Campbell 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
If the years of youth are experienced slowly, while the later years of life hurtle past at an ever-increasing speed, it must… — Thomas Mann 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
“The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is an indispensable companion to all those who are keen to make sense of life… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“I think, scathed as you look, and charred and scorched, there must be a little sense of life in you yet, rising… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“It was not without a certain wild pleasure I ran before the wind, delivering my trouble of mind to the measureless air-torrent… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“The ovarian world is the product of a life rhythm. The moment a child is born it becomes part of a world… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If we ask ourselves what is this wisdom which experience forces upon us, the answer must be that we discover the world… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“The 'human' sense of life, so typical of the modern West, confirms its plebeian and lower aspect. That which some were ashamed… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
“Phaethon asked: “Do you think there is something wrong with the Sophotechs? We are Manorials, father! We let Rhadamanthus control our finances… — John C. Wright 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
I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
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
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