“Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it”
More from John Keats on Life
“Yes, in spite of all, Some shape of beauty moves away the pall From our dark spirits.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.”
“To SorrowI bade good morrow,And thought to leave her far away behind;But cheerly, cheerly,She loves me dearly;She is so constant to me, and so kind.”
“Oh for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.”
“There is nothing stable in the world uproar's your only music.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Margaret Atwood
13 quotes“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”