Other Lives Quotes

49 quotes by 40 authors

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part… — Honore de Balzac
The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human… — Libba Bray
If there is a fundamental challenge within these stories, it is simply to change our lurking suspicion that some lives matter less than other lives. — Greg Boyle
Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it… — George Harrison
Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he? — Henry Travers
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just… — Etgar Keret
There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call… — Jean Baker Miller
The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to… — C.S. Lewis
If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel… — Yann Martel
I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This… — John Frusciante
Other heights in other lives, God willing. — Robert Browning
Your life will become better by making other lives better. — Will Smith
We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. Oneâ€™s inner… — Wendell Berry
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In… — Anne Carson
We travel so far only to land where we are. We imagine other lives, only to meet who we are. We seek out love in… — Mark Nepo
But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw up,… — Grace Paley
To Forget VeniceÂ is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights… — Chase Twichell
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly… — Wendell Berry
Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help… — Peter Kreeft
Books are not about passing the time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. — Alan Bennett

Who Wrote These Other Lives Quotes

40 authors contributed a total of 49 Other Lives Quotes, led by these top contributors: