Quotes about Life

I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours.

I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest of my life to do it

Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." Jack Kerouac

I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.

You dont have to know a soul to know what I know --- to expect what I'm expecting --- to feel yourself alive and dying in your chest every minute of the livelong day --- When you're young you wanta cry, when you're old you wanta die. But that's too deep for you now, Ti mon Pousse

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

You can't live in this world but there's no where else to go.

I wasn't scare, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or walk about slowly remembering all the details of life which now because a million lightyears away have taken on the aspect (as they must've for Proust in his sealed room) of pleasant movies brought up at will and projected for further study ? And pleasure ? As I imagine God to be doing this very minute, watching his own movie, which is us.

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.

But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.