Begging Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years…

— Hermann Hesse

That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood there and…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I consider everything that happened to be precious moments of my life. The pain. The suffering. The fun¦ And I am here right now,…

— Sawada Tsunayoshi

I lived for those moments when we were together, those few times in my life that I actually felt alive.

— Melissa de la Cruz

I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life.…

— Jane Pauley

Whatever happens I have had these blissful, perfect moments and they are worth living for.

— Katherine Mansfield

Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know…

— Ernest Hemingway

In a funny way, when things went wrong in my life - and it is my fault that they went wrong, it is not…

— Kimberly Quinn

I never wanted to live a relatable life, I wanted to live an aspirational life. I didn't want to see people who had my…

— George Stroumboulopoulos

I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't…

— Lana Wood

In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself--like…

— Albert Camus

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my…

— Elie Wiesel