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Life Quotes by Donna Tartt
- But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
- Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life
- Does such a thing as "the fatal flaw," that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?
- Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to…
- I suppose at one time in my life I might have had any number of stories, but now there is no other. This is the…
- It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else…
- There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics…
- One likes to think there's something in it, that old platitude amor vincit omnia. But if I've learned one thing in my short sad life,…
- Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it?…
- When I looked at the painting I felt the same convergence on a single point: a glancing sun-struck instance that existed now and forever. Only…
- …still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life…
- Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of,…
- That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but…
- And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between…
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