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Life Quotes by Alice Sebold
- Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-striped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me…
- These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I…
- Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
- And there she was, alone and walking out in the cornfield while everyone else I cared for sat together in one room. She would always…
- And in a small house five miles away was a man who held my mud-encrusted charm bracelet out to his wife. Look what I found…
- Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is…
- He had a moment of clarity about how life should be lived: not as a child or as a woman. They were the two worst…
- As if in the other side of his kiss there could ve a new life
- She liked to imagine that when she passed the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was.
- There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven.
- Life is a perpetual yesterday for us.
- It's very weird to succeed at thirty-nine years old and realize that in the midst of your failure, you were slowly building the life that…
- When I was raped I lost my virginity and almost lost my life. I also discarded certain assumptions I had held about how the world…
- You're not supposed to look back, you're supposed to keep going.
- I wish you all a long and happy life
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle