#life

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar. ↗

— Grace Paley

#fittest #good #interest #life #necessary

I just did what I did and I still am. It makes you unpopular, maybe for a lifetime, but I'd rather do that than be popular and doubt what I am. ↗

— Robert Barnes

#did #doubt #i #i am #just

That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life. ↗

— Amelia Barr

#affections #answer #armies #birth #death

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#having #i #life #lucky #my life

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#eroticism #even #life

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking. ↗

— Sarah Jessica Parker

#back up #down #fall #get #keep

A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? ↗

— Walter Pater

#dramatic #finest #given #how #life

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#couple #dreams #family #give #good

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#life #oceans #without #would

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#20th century #century #disease #favorite #fear