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Life Quotes by Ian Mcewan
- Was everyone else really as alive as she was?...If the answer was yes, then the world, the social world, was unbearably complicated, with two billion…
- This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
- It wasn't only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple…
- And now she was back in the world, not one she could make, but the one that had made her, and she felt herself shrinking…
- There's a taste in the air, sweet and vaguely antiseptic, that reminds him of his teenage years in these streets, and of a general state…
- It was common enough, to see so much death and want a child. Common, therefore human, and he wanted it all the more. When the…
- I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life. Cee
- You can tell a lot from a person's nails. When a life starts to unravel, they're among the first to go.
- In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some degree... Leon turned…
- Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if…
- The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and…
- He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the…
- Is there any meaning in my life that the inevitable death awaiting me does not destory?
- If life was a dream, then dying must be the moment when you woke up. It was so simple it must be true. You died,…
- Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry,…
- Four or five years - nothing at all. But no one over thirty could understand this peculiarly weighted and condensed time, from late teens to…
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