“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
More from D.H. Lawrence on Life
“Only youth has a taste of immortality.”
“There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet.”
“Life is ours to be spent, not tobe saved.”
“The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.”
“Every man who is acutely alive is acutely wrestling his own soul.”
“Life is ours to be spent not to be saved.”
“While we live let us live.”
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough Without ever having felt sorry for itself.”
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.”
“Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
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Mitch Albom
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Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
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Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
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Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Paulo Coelho
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Sarah Dessen
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Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”