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It was the kiss by which all the others of his life would be judged and found wanting. ↗

— Steven King

#life

i feel my fear moving away in rings through time for a million years. ↗

— Breece D'J Pancake

#confidence #writing-life #life

No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life

they say life goes on long after the thrill of living ↗

— John Mellencamp

#life-lessons #live #life

Life if curious when reduced to its essentials ↗

— Jean Rhys

#literary-fiction #life

P is for Persistence! Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Wishing will not; Talent will not; Genius will not; Education will not; Persistence is like a Genie that creates a magical force in your life. ↗

— Lucas Remmerswaal

#inspirational-quotes #persistence #attitude

The other option you have is to come to terms with this fucking life, as you call it, and put up with the suffering it involves. Put up with the suffering we all have to endure, always, to get through that and find and enjoy the happiness and joy that it brings us as well, in spite of our being alive. ↗

— Arnaldur Indriðason

#life

Everyone's life is a mess. Everyone's. We all make mistakes . . . and not just little slip-ups. Major mistakes that hurt us and other people. ↗

— James Alan Gardner

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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#self #shadow #life

And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice. ↗

— Anne Holm

#life