We Try Quotes

563 quotes by 479 authors

Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I know why we try to keep the dead alive: we try to keep them alive in order to keep them with us. — Joan Didion
Sometimes it is only a True Friend who knows what we mean when we try to speak. Somebody who has spent a lot of time… — Cressida Cowell
To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen… — Umberto Eco
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us,… — Willie Nelson
Can we try to be wise with each other for a very long time? — Rachel Cohn
The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness… — Alan Watts
Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to… — Alan Watts
At once, itâ€™s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just donâ€™t have the arrogance. Apparently, Iâ€™m too â€œvulnerableâ€ for ferocity.… — Suzanne Collins
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have… — Frederick Buechner
The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with… — Andrew Murray
What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget. — Suzanne Collins
Hello," he greeted her cheerfully. "You must be Alan of Trebond. You're very hardy to have made it this far the first day. Has anyone… — Tamora Pierce
Life isn't perfect. It's not supposed to be. We all make mistakes. You bash your head against the wall and you get hurt, but you… — Karen White
When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for… — Miguel Angel Ruiz
We love and we feel and we try and we hope. — David Levithan
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent.… — Alan Watts
justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them. — Gregory David Roberts
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe… — Paulo Coelho
I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. — Paulo Coelho

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