Graduation Quote by Spencer Johnson

He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one…

— Cormac McCarthy

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in…

— Leo Tolstoy

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous

“How could a person not belong in the only place she ever lived?”

— Tracy L. Higley

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them ...

— Edith Wharton

Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of…

— Robert James Waller

“...it all remained unreadable for him, though reading, he felt, was not a natural thing and should not be done to people. In general,…

— Lorrie Moore

“The living room seemed to be where no living ever actually occurred.”

— Alice Sebold

“What it all amounted to, oddly enough, was that in his finally so simplified world this garden of death gave him the few square…

— Henry James

“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in…

— Paul Auster

“They were mere permutations of known quantities. There was no roundness or fullness in this world he now inhabited, everything was a dead shape…

— D. H. Lawrence

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

— Robert Gordis