“Oh, For The Years I Have Not Lived, But Only Dreamed Of Living.”

Virginia Woolf ― Orlando: A Biography

Ernest Hemingway, from his novel titled "A Farewell To Arms," originally publ. in 1929

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

— The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

— Joanne Harris (via quotemadness)

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′

“Think new things every day.”

— Democritus, Fragments, B158

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“She never forgot that day; it was so bright and golden and fair, so free from shadow and so lavish of blossom.”

― L. M. Montgomery, from “Anne of Green Gables.”

William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra