Life Quote by Marcel Proust

“I'm not just a reader or a writer; I inhale written words like they're my oxygen. It's not a hobby. It's a passion. People…

— Nicola Haken

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain…

— George Orwell

“Poetry, playing with your words until you breathe life into them.”

— Morgan Dragonwillow

“Writing is like breathing -- it is necessary for my survival.”

— Michelle C. Hillstrom

“I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my experience about…

— Frederick Douglass

“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied…

— Sylvia Plath

“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence,…

— Stephen Batchelor

“My life felt so cluttered and obstructed that I could hardly breathe. I inhabited a closed, concentrated world, airless and without exits.”

— Nell Casey

“Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of…

— Zbigniew Herbert

“Breathe in that vital connection to the life source and sensual beauty everywhere. Feel loved and strong.”

— Jay Woodman

“A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“How intense can be the longing to escape from the emptiness and dullness of human verbosity, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate,…

— Boris Pasternak