Quotes on Life

Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Impropriety is the soul of wit.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

A person never knows their own true face. Everybody thinks that the phoney, posed social mask they wear is their real face.

The sooner every party breaks up the better.

Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.

A documentary photograph is not a factual photograph.

It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.

That frame of mind that you need to make fine pictures of a very wonderful subject, you cannot do it by not being lost yourself.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

First thought is best in Art, second in other matters.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.