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Life Quotes by James Salter
- Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain…
- Of them all, it was the true love. Of them all, it was the best. That other sumptuous love which made one drunk, which one…
- There is no complete life. There are only fragments. We are born to have nothing, to have it pour through our hands. And yet, this…
- But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies:…
- ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.
- Children are our crop, our fields, our earth. They are birds let loose into darkness. They are errors renewed. Still, they are the only source…
- Life passes into pages if it passes into anything,
- Life is weather. Life is meals,
- But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I…
- One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult…
- I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of gray ice, trying…
- The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The…
- As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.
- One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.
- In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on…
- You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be…
- There came a time when I felt I was not going to be satisfied with life unless I could write.
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