#life

What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#behind #finally #get #here #his

My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#father #life-long #line #long #long story

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife! ↗

— Buddy Guy

#everyday #everyday life #everyone #get #having

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#economics #human #human life #life #politics

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #life #death

The Ketty Jay was staffed with drunkards and drifters, all of them running from something -- whether it be memories or enemies or the drudgery of land-bound life -- but since Yortland they'd been running in the same direction. United by that common purpose, they'd begun to turn into something resembling a crew. And Frey had begun to turn into something resembling a captain. ↗

— Chris Wooding

#retribution-fals #steampunk #life

He liked having the boy there beside him. Like some bright flame of life still burning bright beside the spent lamp of his own spirit. ↗

— Paul Kearney

#life

I just see myself as a human being that's concerned about life. ↗

— Charlie Haden

#being #concerned #human #human being #i

Regarding life, it is much the best to think that the experiences we have are necessary for us. It is by means of experience that we develop and not through our imagination. Imagination is nothing. Explanation is nothing. One can only experience and somehow describe--with, in Camus's phrase, lucid indifference. At the same time, experience is fundamentally illusory. When one is experiencing emotional pain or grief, one feels that everything that happens in life is unreal. And this is a right understanding of life. ↗

— Joy Williams

#experience

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart. ↗

— Deidre Hall

#fell #gave #i #know #life