My Life Quotes

• The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Effort
  • Plans

• My life forces me to imagine what hers would have been if what happened to me had happened to her, what use she would have made of my luck. And her life continuously appears in mine, in the words that I've uttered, in which there's often an echo of hers, in a particular gesture that is an adaptation of a gesture of hers, in my less which is such because of her more, in my more which is the yielding to the force of her less.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Imagine
  • Force
  • Luck

• I have been misunderstood more than I've been understood in my life.

  

  Amy Koppelman
  • My Life
  • Misunderstood

• Maybe my life isn't all that interesting but at least I'm busy. Busy doesn't mean happy. I know that. But at least I'm not bored. Being bored is the worst.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Happy
  • Interesting
  • Bored

• The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.

  

  Beatrice Sparks
  • My Life
  • Bottom
  • Fallen

• Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Prayer
  • My Life

• Was my life going to go on like this forever, totally uneventful? Alternating between unfulfilled expectations and expected disappointments?

  

  Eva Heller
  • My Life
  • Expectations
  • Disappointments

• Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.

  

  Christy Moore
  • Music
  • Business
  • Song

• The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Wisdom
  • Working
  • Benefit

• My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

  

  Eva Zeisel
  • My Life
  • Writers
  • Elegant

• If what matters in a person's existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one's external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Destiny
  • Fate
  • Existence

• If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it's that I've never been a kept woman.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Proud
  • Woman
  • My Life

• I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Play
  • My Life
  • Characters

• If I were poet now, I would not resist the temptation to trace my life back through the delicate shadows of my childhood to the precious and sheltered sources of my earliest memories. But these possessions are far too dear and sacred for the person I now am to spoil for myself. All there is to say of my childhood is that it was good and happy. I was given the freedom to discover my own inclinations and talents, to fashion my inmost pleasures and sorrows myself and to regard the future not as an alien higher power but as the hope and product of my own strength.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Memories
  • Poet
  • Shadows

• My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Soul
  • Records
  • Bassist

• I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.

  

  James Hetfield Metallica
  • Music
  • Job
  • Identify

• Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

  

  Tony Dorsett
  • Marriage
  • Mistake
  • My Life

• There's no good way to die, you know? No way I've seen, anyway. It all ends with tubes and bedpans and IVs and I just-- smoking gets me out of there. Gets me outside, gets me away from all the--" "Sick people?" I say, and she shakes her head. "Away from my life.

  

  Elizabeth Scott
  • Die
  • Smoking
  • Good Way

• We can aspire to anything, but we don't get it just 'cause we want it. I would rather spend my life close to the birds than waste it wishing I had wings.

  

  Eli Attie
  • Wings
  • Birds
  • Aspire

• I think anything thats creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that Im going through in my life. If youre going through heartbreak, and you can write a song, its a wonderful win-win, because it takes your mind off the heartbreak, and you get to vent.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Win
  • Creative
  • My Mind

• I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme of the Faith album.

  

  George Michael
  • Faith
  • Hurt
  • My Life

• Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Find
  • Drive
  • My Soul

• She was suggesting that I separate also from my third child. She seemed to be saying: Imma would be better off and so would you. I replied: If Imma leaves me, too, my life will no longer have meaning. But she smiled: Where is it written that lives should have meaning?

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Child
  • Meaning
  • Separate

• Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Soul
  • My Life
  • Shadows

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