Life Quote by Ross Macdonald Download Open image ““Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.”” — Ross Macdonald ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Life Living
“Men are busy dying from the moment they’re born but it’s a crawl from the cradle to the grave.” — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“If you make a person believe that his misfortune in this birth is due to his sins in his previous birth, he will resign… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“I see now that the circumstances of one's birth is irrelevent,it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you… — Mewtwo Copy Share Image
“These men, we’ve been told, are like war criminals. It’s no excuse that what they did was legal at the time: their crimes are retroactive. They have committed atrocities and must be made into examples, for the rest. Though this is hardly needed. No woman in her right mind, these days, would seek to prevent a birth, should she be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share
“It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“As long as you keep getting born, it's all right to die sometimes” — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.” — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
“The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
“She didn't look like any motel manager I had ever seen. More likely an actress who hadn't quite made the grade down south, or a very successful amateur tart on the verge of turning pro. Whatever her business was, there had to be sex in it. She was as full of sex as a grape is full of juice, and… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share
“In wine was truth, perhaps, but in whisky, the way Hoffman sluiced it down, was an army of imaginary rats climbing your legs.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“A cockroach stepped out from behind the ketchup, gave me a quick impassive once-over, decided that I was of the Brahmin faith, and walked… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people. — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“I found myself wishing that we could live like the birds and move through nature without hurting it ourselves.” — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I like a little danger. Tame danger, controlled by me. It gives me a sense of power, I guess, to take my life in… — Ross Macdonald 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 pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share
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