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Life Quotes by Raymond Carver
- My life is going to change. I feel it.
- It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a…
- Mel thought real love was nothing less than spiritual love. He'd said he'd spent five years in a seminary before quitting to go to medical…
- That was in Crescent City, California, up near the Oregon border. I left soon after. But today I was thinking of that place, of Crescent…
- But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come,…
- and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.
- In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.
- There is no answer. It's okay. But even if it wasn't okay, what am I supposed to do?
- There was a time when I thought I loved my first wife more than life itself. But now I hate her guts. I do. How…
- If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute,…
- Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read. Fought against it for a minute. Then looked out…
- Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is…
- I guess my writing has changed as my life has.
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