#life

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#quiet #silence #tranquility #life

Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener. ↗

— Nanci Griffith

#because #else #even #fantasy #fiction

I kind of think I'm going to live a long life as a punishment. ↗

— Jessica Hahn

#i #kind #life #live #long

some things don't matter much. Like the color of a house. How big is that in the overall scheme of life? But lifting a person's heart--now, that matters. The whole problem with people is...they know what matters, but they don't choose it...The hardest thing on earth is choosing what matters. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#life

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #life-and-death #death

I read differently now, more painstakingly, knowing I am probably revisiting the books I love for the last time. (245) ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life #sad #age

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law ↗

— David Clement-Davies

#death

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes. ↗

— Lewis Grizzard

#dog #lead #life #like #never

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#intolerable #knowing #life #makes #next

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present. ↗

— John Guare

#back #ballet #city #coming #constant