“ Life passes by in a second; we are like mushrooms in the forest, eternal today and rotten tomorrow... Damian Maher
“ It would be wise to define ‘living’ as walking in the fullest expression of who I am, verses wallowing in the confines of who I’m not. Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ The vision of her own personality, of herself as a real everlasting thing, different from anything else, unmergeable, like the sea or the wind, flashed into Rachel's mind, and she became profoundly ex… Virginia Woolf
“ It’s a funny thing, one day you’re living and the next day you’re not sometimes, whether you have plans or not. Wishes and wants get trumped by the reaper every time. I don’t even know if I would want… Dan Groat
“ Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living. Danielle Pearl
“ As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living. Dan Groat
“ Survival requires a dose of madness—what cynics call “hoping against hope”—just like art does; you conjure your future from white space, locate the hidden person, yourself, against this unfamiliar bac… Mark Matousek
“ Then since we mortal lovers are,Ask not how long our love may last;But while it does, let us take careEach minute be with pleasure passed:Were it not madness to denyTo live because we're sure to die? George Etherege
“ Nothing is more tragic than failure to discover one’s true business in life, or to find that one has drifted or been forced by circumstance into an uncongenial calling. John Dewey
“ I learn so much that I previously did not know about the world of the immobile that it is hard to believe it all takes place over a few hours. At random: I learn about the casual indifference of the L… Marion Coutts
“ There is nothing so expensive, really, as a big, well-developed, full-bodied preconception. E.B. White
“ This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes. J. California Cooper
“ Hunting, bathing, gaming, laughing: that's living (venari lavare ludere ridere occest vivere). Mary Beard
“ It's one thing to love someone so completely that their loss causes you unfathomable grief, agony that rips at your very being. It's another thing to love someone so completely that you can no longer… Tess Oliver