Life Quote by Anthony Doerr Download Open image ““All the events of his life were compressing to singularity: one night, one hour.”” — Anthony Doerr ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life
“And it was the part of a wise man to forget inevitable calamities of human life in the enjoyment of the fleeting hour.” — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“Each instant was different and new and unrepeatable. That was the very nature of time, ceaselessly realizing itself, in every life.” — César Aira Copy Share Image
“For many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom,… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“for he had acquired, as time went on, the firm conviction that any thought, even the most audacious, that any fiction, even the most… — Stefan Grabinski Copy Share Image
“His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“But even in his dissatisfaction he could not quiet the feeling that time was like a flash flood, so full, so brimming with things… — Bess Tefft Copy Share Image
“He could not even take comfort in knowing that he had spent most of his adult life in dread of calamities had not materialized,… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.” — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Deeply he felt, more deeply than ever before, in this hour, the indestructibility of every life, the eternity of every moment.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again,… — Elif Batuman Copy Share
“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the… — Laurence Cossé Copy Share Image
“he moved neither forward nor backward in time, but merely endured variations of the same day over and over. Maybe he was the one… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Open your eyes, the Frenchman on the radio used to say, and see what you can with them before they close forever.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Just when we think we have a system, ...the system collapses. Just when we know our way around, we get lost. Just when we… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“An hour passed and another and then, like a glass of water overfilled - the meniscus inverting, going convex, gravity pulling at the edges,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“For dinner, he orders wild boar cooked with fresh mushrooms. And a full bottle of Bordeaux. Especially during wartime, such things remain important. They… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“You ever hope for something so much? So much you can't sleep, so much your skull hurts? But the thing is, you don't even… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Hope was a sunrise, a friend in the alley, a whisper in an empty corridor.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“silent desperation of everything they never said - gaps and absences in every conversation, the past circumscribing the present, the future hemming in the… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
