Life Quote by Alexander McCall Smith

“All at once the world seemed very thin to her, more an idea than an actual thing, and barely there at all. She had…

— Stephen King

“It was realisation, in a moment of time, not only of her own possibilities, far from inconsiderable ones, but also of other possibilities that…

— Anthony Powell

“It was astonishing to think that life had once been the sum of her current love-affairs. It was now the sum of her current…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“We're only given one life, and it's the one we live, she had thought; how painful now, to realize that wasn't true, that you…

— Samuel Park

“Life was not a choice. Life was a gift and she would treasure it, no matter what challenges were being thrown her way.”

— Andrea Barbosa

“But she had recently come to think that in such unhappy times--when the odds were so high against personal happiness--to find love was miraculous,…

— Bernard Malamud

“But what was making her unhappy? Where was the extraordinary catastrophe that had wrecked her life?She raised her head and looked around, as though…

— Gustave Flaubert

“Eventually you will see that the real cause of problem is not life itself. It's the commotion the mind makes about life that really…

— Michael A. Singer

“The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your…

— Joanna Cannon

“There are a few scattered moments in one’s life when everything seems possible.”

— Paul Russell

“And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising…

— Veronica Rossi