- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had to make ends meet. My parents were divorced, so my father wasn't really in my life. We grew up like most kids, just wanting things.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a good memory for early life. My visual memory is good about childhood and adolescence, and less good in the last 10 years. I could probably tell you less what happened in the last 10 years. I remember what houses looked like, sometimes they just pop into my head.
- Making
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm hopefully making the reader feel a lot about the characters and then about their own life.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want an ending that's satisfying. I'm more of a classical writer than a modernist one in that I want the ending to be coherent and feel like an ending. I don't like when it just seems to putter out. I mean, life is chaotic enough.
- Chaos
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was directed because I knew I wanted to be a novelist, but I didn't have a very good job or a way of getting published. I found those years to be among the most difficult of my life.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
- Nov 07, 2020
Business is the salt of life.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is a work in progress.
- Life Is Short
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life is short. You have to be able to laugh at our pain or we never move on.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.
- Joy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think you can be good in life without acknowledging the part of you that isn't good.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020