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Life Quotes by Hubert Selby, Jr.
- Obviously, I believe that to pursue the American Dream is not only futile but self-destructive because ultimately it destroys everything and everyone involved with it.…
- Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also…
- I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the…
- But to believe that getting stuff is the purpose and aim of life is madness.
- Life was not longer something to endure, but to live.
- ... I started to die 36 hours before I was born, so dying was a way of life for me.
- But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my…
- There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart…
- I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such…
- I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and…
- The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.
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