Accustomed Quote by Paul Bowles

Living was a dangerous past-time, and often quite painful—but there was also such joy in living, such beauty, things that one would otherwise never…

— Jim Butcher

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

— Stephen King

What I think has been wonderful about my life is that it has been diverse, and that I've been able to do so many…

— Isabella Rossellini

It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and…

— Elizabeth Kostova

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had…

— Romeo Dallaire

I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.

— Lucy Grealy

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

— Graham Norton

I enjoyed every experience that life offers.

— Ileana D'Cruz

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

— Raoul Vaneigem

So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same unreality, which…

— Virginia Woolf

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It…

— Sarah Orne Jewett