Life Quote by Ottessa Moshfegh Download Open image ““I’m like a beautiful tortoise. I don’t waste my energy. Life is precious to me now.”” — Ottessa Moshfegh ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Life is precious
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“Bees buzzed in the bean blossoms. And the sun beat down on the upturned shell of Om. There is also a hell for tortoises.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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“I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might… — Scott Hutchins Copy Share Image
“Do not watch your life melt away just like that for life is too precious to waste it doing nothing.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
If you look at the horror genre, that work is all about making people uncomfortable by stimulating our fear of death. — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
I've always really enjoyed sharing my work with others. I find it really hard if I don't think the work will exist outside of… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Indifference is the saddest state of being. It's like PTSD - you're not gonna fight, you're not gonna run, you're just frozen there, feeling… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Talking to Reva about misery was insufferable. 'Look on the bright side,' was what she wanted everyone to do.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
What's inspiring me the most [is] injustice. My own growth as a member of the human race, in terms of the veils being lifted,… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of anything current or faddish made me feel I was just a victim of isolation.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I wanted to hold onto the house the way you'd hold onto a love letter. It was proof that I had not always been… — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“Like a favorite song you’ve heard so many times it begins to annoy you,” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I watched that old world go by, away and away, gone gone gone, until, like me, it disappeared.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
“I was nervous. It had been a long time since I’d gone any place I wanted to be.” — Ottessa Moshfegh Copy Share Image
Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Life works most perfectly when a reciprocal love relationship is in place between man and God. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
I value the experiences that come with life too much to sit by and not put my full effort into them. — Jim Miller Copy Share Image
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“I've spent much of my life calling my intuition "something wrong with me.” — Deanna L. Lawlis Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson. — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image