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
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
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 believe it is impossible to make sense of life in this world except through art. — Daniel Pinkwater 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
“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Compassion begins with the acknowledgment of the single inescapable truth that is the foundation for the possibility of love between human beings… — Sam Keen 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
The senses don't just make sense of life in bold or subtle acts of clarity, they tear reality apart into vibrant morsels… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Europe has what we [Americans] do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in… — James A. Baldwin 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
“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
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
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 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
“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
“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
“I've been reading a book about romantic love. It's excellent. I have found a person that I definitely share core values with,… — Steven L. Sheppard Copy Share Image
“I think trying to write is a religious exercise. You are trying to understand life, and you can only get the illusion… — Peter Taylor Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“You've been kissed by the shadows. You've crossed into Death, into the other side, and returned. Do you think something like that… — Richelle Mead 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
Psychologist Nathaniel Branden speaks of a benevolent sense of life possible to those with rational, productive values, vividly contrasted with the coercive… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“Germaine, on the other hand, was a whore from the cradle; she was thoroughly satisfied with her role, enjoyed it in fact,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The underlying purpose of all art is to create patterns of imagery which somehow convey a sense of life set in a… — Christopher Booker Copy Share Image
“Truth, terrible truth! It is like an ancient curse, from which there is no escape. The truth will drive one mad. Yet… — Maryrose Wood 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
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 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
“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
“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 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
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