Disciplined life Quote by Lois Lowry

“His life was focused on each single day. For him each night meant a void, a grave, extinction. The capacity to lay oneself down…

— Robert Musil

“Everything was to be experienced at the highest pitch of passion and life. To expect something greater after life was to forget that life…

— Nina George

“There had come to him one of those moments of quiet despair that lie in wait for even the happiest. Stealthy-footed they leap upon…

— Elizabeth Goudge

“I endured all our hardships as if they had been luxuries: I made light of scurvy, banqueted off train-oil, and met that cold for…

— Harriet Prescott Spofford

“Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose…

— John Grogan

“Yet, although he could not quite work this out in simple terms in his own mind, the very savour of life, he thought, was…

— Winston Graham

“[...] but just as formerly these pursuits and ideas had seemed petty and insignificant in comparison with the darkness that overshadowed all existence, so…

— Leo Tolstoy

“And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colours the day but…

— Neil Gaiman

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“You'll see why a person would want to live there forever. Dawn, morning, mid-day, night: all the same, except for the changes in the…

— Juan Rulfo

“He knew no future then, no kind of life except the life he led. He fled the cave-bear over the rocks full of iron…

— H.G. Wells

“IMPROVIDENCE The other lives I might have led All now might as well be Dead. Survived by no one. Barren, without issue of any…

— John Tottenham